Technology Watch Working Group

The mandate of this Working Group is to monitor the relevant evolutions, both in terms of technology and markets, of the computing equipments that are relevant to the HEPiX community.

The group will co-exist and align with existing activities, most notably the running working groups on benchmarking and cost modelling.

Chairs

The group is jointly chaired by Helge Meinhard (Helge dot Meinhard at cern dot ch) and Bernd Panzer-Steindel (Bernd Panzer-Steindel at cern dot ch).

References to earlier work

• Bernd Panzer’s Wiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/TechMarketPerf
• Helge Meinhard’s presentation at Spring 2018 HEPiX: https://indico.cern.ch/event/676324/contributions/2964768/

Subgroups

• General market trends, semiconductor markets, unit sales
  Conveners: Servesh Muralidharan, Peter Wegner Other members: Rolf Seuster, Kai Leffhalm, Charles Leggett, Gang Chen
• Server market
  Conveners: Michele Michelotto, Chris Hollowell
  Other members: Servesh Muralidharan, Peter Wegner, Mathieu Puel, Andrea Chierici, Harvey Newman
• CPUs and accelerators
  Conveners: Andrea Sciaba, Eric Yen
  Other members: Michele Michelotto, Rolf Seuster, Servesh Muralidharan, Domenico Giordano, Niko Neufeld, Charles Leggett, Peter Wegner, Mathieu Puel, Romain Wartel, Andrea Chierici, Andrea Valassi, Shigeki Misawa, Felice Pantaleo, Chris Hollowell
• Memories
  Convener: Shigeki Misawa
  Other members: Servesh Muralidharan, Andrea Sciaba, Loic Tortay, Fabio Hernandez
• Storage
  Conveners: German Cancio, Martin Gasthuber
  Other members: Federico Calzolari, Peter Wienemann, Oliver Freyermuth, Julien Leduc, Vladimir Sapunenko, Kai Leffhalm, Alessandro Brunengo, Shkelzen Rudovac, Loic Tortay, Fabio Hernandez, Eric Yen, Harvey Newman, Shigeki Misawa
• Network
  Conveners: Edoardo Martelli, Rolf Seuster
  Other members: Federico Calzolari, Fazhi Qi, Alessandro Brunengo, Harvey Newman, Tristan Suerink

Meetings

• Agenda of meetings is found on Indico

Coming up

Interested to get in touch? Contact the chairs (see above), or join us at one of the following events, where we expect to present:

• Joint HSF-OSG-WLCG workshop (HOW19) at Jefferson Lab, Newport News (Virginia), USA, from 18 to 22 March 2019: https://indico.cern.ch/e/how2019
• HEPiX Spring 2019 workshop at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), San Diego (California), USA, from 25 to 29 March 2019: https://indico.cern.ch/e/hepix-spring2019
• EGI Conference 2019 at Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 6 to 8 May 2019: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4431/

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