IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• 6-Xterminals, 4-Windows-XP, wired access in Room
  119 and wired access in adjacent Board Room
  (preferred)
• Coffee breaks held outside the auditorium
• Included lunches will be available in front lobby
  (reception area)
• Seating
• -48 seats in Conference room nearby
• -Cafeteria
• -Auditorium and abutting Board Room
• Photocopy facilities downstairs in mail room
• Fax facility available downstairs

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Bus to Coast Plaza leaves at 530pm (48 max)
• Tues Bus to TRIUMF leaves Coast Plaza 800am
• Extra Dinner Tickets / Choice - Due now!
• Refer to www.triumf.ca/hepix2003 for updates
• In consideration of efforts put forth by all,
  please refrain from undue use of laptops during
  presentations
• Most importantly submit your talks before it
  is presented preferably now!
  Email to hepix-talks_at_triumf.ca

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Friday afternoon
• -departure arrangements
• -tour of Westgrid

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A little history

• Last HEPiX meeting at TRIUMF April 10-12/1996
• Alan Silvermans 18 pages of meeting notes
• CERN had some 5TB of disk space
• X-stations dominated (most labs)
• IBM Mainframe CERNVM, still with 2300 users but
  was to be switched off in 3 months
• Network migrating from bridged to routed
• Desire to move to DFS due to AFS problems
• Struggling with how to handle UNIX (operating)
  releases and dealing with vendor-supplied patched

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A little more history

• At the other sites
• The big disk drives were the 9GB Seagates
• Many sites were moving from VMS to UNIX
• LINUX, including coming MP support, was being
  rolled out and pro/cons of open source debated
• Problems with disk space management
• Windows 3.11 was migrating to Windows NT
• Mail service was moving from POP to IMAP
• Tape standardization was a moving target
• Many emerging choices on handling batch queues
  and providing user interfaces