Computing conference goes to the Swiss Alps

摘要

Chep '04 was an opportunity to review progress in Grid technology, discuss experience gained from experiments and look to the future. Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) is a major series of conferences that has been held at roughly 18 month intervals since the 1980s, alternating between Europe, North America and other parts of the world. The latest meeting - CHEP '04 - was organized by CERN and took place in Interlaken from 26 September to 1 October 2004. As the conference chairman, Wolfgang von Rueden from CERN, pointed out in his welcome address, this was the last opportunity for CERN to organize the conference prior to the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). An important theme therefore was to review progress in making the Grid a powerful and reliable computing resource in time for processing LHC data. The conference also aimed to learn from the experience of experiments that are currently running, to stay in touch with other sciences and to have a look into the future.