ACAT 2008 Highlights

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		h1. ACAT 2008 highlights "Are we ready for LHC data"

		ACAT = Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in (High-Energy) Physics Research
		Originated as "Artificial Intelligence is High Energy Nuclear Physics. The AIHEP92 conference was the first time WWW was presented outside of CERN (World Wide Web - An information infrastructure for High-Energy physics).

		h2. Links

		* [Home page\|http://acat2008.cern.ch/]
		* [Program\|http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?confId=34666&view=static&showDate=all&showSession=all&detailLevel=contribution]

		h2. Highlights

		* Location was spectacular
		* Location was spectacular (Erice, Sicily)

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		* Program was (of course) heavily slanted to LHC. Lots of stuff on (use of) Root.
		* Surprisingly little emphasis on GRID (taken for granted -- or everyone is sick of talking about it?)
		** [LLVM\|http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=228&sessionId=25&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=34666] (Chris Lattner, llvm.org/Apple)
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		** [Multi-Core\|http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=11&sessionId=15&confId=34666] (Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab)
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		** Xrootd (Andy, Fabrizio)

		h2. Links



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		* [Home page\|http://acat2008.cern.ch/]
		* [Program\|http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?confId=34666&view=static&showDate=all&showSession=all&detailLevel=contribution]