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Les Robertson |
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Information Technology
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Background - Les Robertson has been involved in the
development and management of the central computing services at CERN, the European Organization
for Nuclear Research, since 1974, taking a very active part in the evolution
from super-computers through general purpose mainframes to clusters of RISC
workstations and finally (at least for now) to PC-based computing fabrics. He
was involved from an early stage in planning the data handling services for
the experiments
that use CERN's new accelerator - the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC). The very large volume of data and computing capacity requirements
led to an early interest in Computational and Data Grids - which are now
enabling us to unite the power of more than 130 large and small computing
clusters available to high energy physicists, integrating them with storage
facilities at CERN and other data centres distributed around the world. He
led the LHC Computing Grid Project for
six years from its start in 2001 with the goal of preparing the computing
environment for LHC: the development and support of the common tools,
libraries and frameworks required by the physics applications, the
preparation of the computing facility at CERN, and the coordination and
operation of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. |
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Recent presentations
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