High Energy Physics Unix Interest Group Formed
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:
- Batch
- Tape support
- Software management & distribution
- Portability of the physicist environment
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.