TRIP REPORT SUMMARY

Travelers:
Roger. L. Cottrell Assistant Director, SLAC Computer Services

Richard Dubois Physicist, SLD Experiment

Tony Johnson Physicist, SLD Experiment

Randy Melen Systems Specialist, SLAC Computer Services

Dates of Trip:
December 4 - December 15, 1993

Purpose:
To Visit CERN, DESY and RAL and learn about their activities and plans in computing and networking

Estimated cost of travel:
$5000, funded by DoE

These visits were arranged to continue discussions with colleagues at CERN, DESY and RAL on current activities and future plans for support of computing and networking. In particular we focussed on issues raised by the SLAC Computer Advisory Committee concerning the distributed environment and client server computing and how to migrate from today's supported systems to those we will need towards the end of this century. While in England, Cottrell took the opportunity to discuss the European Networking scene with ex SLACers at DANTE in England.