High Energy Physics Unix Interest Group Formed

<title>HEPix Formed</title>
<h1>High Energy Physics Unix Interest Group Formed</h1>
<p> 
HEPiX  is  an  international group of cooperating institutions all of which are
experiencing an explosion in the use of Unix  for  High  Energy  Physics  (HEP)
work.    The focus of this group is to share experiences, influence vendors and
standards bodies and to investigate solutions to those  problems  which  impede
the  use  of  Unix for mainstream work at the member institutions.  The initial
areas of investigation include topics which are not fully addressed by  current
Unix  offerings and are critical to the HEP computing environment.  Such topics
include:
<ul> 
<li>Batch
<li>Tape support
<li>Software management & distribution
<li>Portability of the physicist environment
</ul> 
The group held its first meeting   at  Fermilab  on  September  23-25th,  1991.
There  were  about 40 participants from ANL, BNL, CERN, DESY, Fermilab, HEPnet,
INFN, KEK, LAMPF, LBL, NIKHEF,  SCRI, SLAC, SSCL, SURA/CEBAF, TRIUMF and  Yale.
Future meetings will be held at roughly half-yearly intervals.
 
HEPiX decided that continuing communication would be achieved via an integrated
system  comprised of the HEPiX mailer, Netnews discussion groups, and the HEPiX
archive on the hepnet.hep.net network  information  center.