Jamie Shiers

Grid Support Group, IT Department
CERN
1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland

e-mail: Jamie.Shiers@cern.ch
phone : +41 22 767 4928
FAX :    +41 22 767 7155 (secretariat)
FAX:     +41 22 766 9954 (direct)
GSM:    +41 76 487 4506
Blogs:    http://jamieshiers.blogspot.com/ (personal blog) and The HEPDB blog (databases in HEP)

Current Activities

Grid Support Group, Information Technology Department, LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project (from January 2008)

Previous Activities

CERN Computing Colloquia (until December 2005)
Grid Deployment Group, Information Technology Department, LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project (from January 2005 - December 2007)
Database Group, Information Technology Division, CERN (IT-DB) (until December 2004)
CERN Annual Report: IT Division contribution (until December 2004)

A Few Talks...

NEC 2009: HEP SSC status - WLCG status report
LHC: First Contact - Experience with first LHC data in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) - for EGEE'08 Istanbul and EMBnet 20th anniversary conference.
Grids Today, Clouds on the Horizon (abstract, talk, paper) - at Conference on Computational Physics 2008 (CCP2008), Ouro Preto, Brazil
The (WLCG) Common Computing Readiness Challenge (CCRC'08) - talk to HEPiX, May 2008 at CERN
Databases in High Energy Physics - a Critical Review: PDF - PPT (for CERN - Oracle 25 years celebration)
The Use of DataGrids at CERN - presentation to Computing in Atmospheric Sciences workshop (CAS2007), Annecy, September 2007
Processing the Data from the World's Largest Scientific Machine - The Worldwide LCG: talk - paper - CCP 2006, Korea, September 2006
State of Readiness of LHC Computing Infrastructure - CHEP 2006, Mumbai, February 2006
The LHC Computing Grid - Canadian VIP visit to CERN, October 2005
The LCG Service Challenges - at IEEE Global Storage symposium, Sardinia, June 2005
The LCG Service Challenges (last update June 2005)
CERN Overview - very brief introduction to CERN focussing on LHC / LCG
Building the world's largest scientific Grid - Oracle Tech Day, Moscow, November 2004 (Russian version)
CERN School of Computing 2004: The Future of Computing is Already Here - Its just not very concentrated yet:

Based on a mis-quote from William Gibson(*), the inventor of the term "cyberspace", this talk makes some bold forecasts concerning the future of computing. Given that the history of computing is littered with predictions that with hindsight look at best amusing, this is clearly either a daring or foolhardy thing to do. Nevertheless, in preparing for LHC computing - which arguably started over 10 years ago - we are required to look many years into the future. After setting the scene by revisiting some of the past's most famous blunders, we will briefly review how we arrived where we are now, before beginning wild and wonderful speculation about the future. Some of it may even come true. Sorry - be true.

* "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
Author: William Gibson

CERN Summer Student Lectures 2002: Computing at CERN lectures
From the Web to the Grid (for Oracle 10g launch in Zurich, Switzerland, September 23 2003)
CERN/LHC Overview (for Oracle 9iAS Press Day, March 26 2003)
Could Oracle become a player in Physics Data Management? (CERN openlab workshop, March 2003)
LCG Data Processing (CDTI, Madrid, October 2002)
Using Oracle OCCI at CERN (Oracle World Copenhagen, June 2002), with Bernhard Duechting, Oracle
Pushing the limits of Database Clusters (Oracle World Copenhagen, June 2002), with Werner Schueler, Intel
Summary of LCG Kickoff Workshop, March 2002, CERN
Oracle's potential role in LHC Data Handling, March 2002 (IT "after C5" presentation)
Oracle OpenWorld SFO 2001 presentation
Overview of LHC Computing

A Few Pictures...

A passage to India - giving a talk in Kolkata
Anyone for Venice?
DB 'experts' (for 50 years Computing at CERN)
openlab team - summer 2004
Posing at OracleWorld 2003 in the Moscone Center, San Francisco
With Mark Jarvis (Chief Marketing Officer, Oracle), Udo Heinecke (Oracle CH) and Hans Hoffmann (Director of Scientific Computing, CERN)
With Ken Jacobs and others from CERN, Oracle HQ, April 2003
In the IT visitor gallery and at home, for Oracle Magazine, taken by Piotr Jaxa, March 2003
Skiing in La Clusaz, February 2003
With Craig Barrett, Intel, at Oracle OpenWorld 2001

Babelfish...

http://babelfish.altavista.com/