Dr. rer. nat. Alf Wachsmann

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[SLAC] [SLAC Computing]

Talks:

• SLAC Site Report.
  HEPiX Fall 2010 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (November 1-5, 2010).


• Scientific Computing at SLAC.
  Talk for students from ROC Tilburg (The Netherland) at SLAC, April 27, 2010.


• LCLS Data Analysis Facility.
  HEPiX Spring 2010 at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics, Lisbon, Portugal (April 19-23, 2010).


• LCLS (Linac Coherent Light Source) Computing at SLAC.
  DESY IT Seminar, June 22, 2009.


• Spring HEPiX 2009 at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (May 25-29, 2009):
  • SLAC Site Report
  • LCLS Online and Offline Computing
  • New HPSS architecture at SLAC


• Parallel computing at SLAC and new developments.
  BaBar Mini-Workshop on Parallel Computing in ML Fits at SLAC, (December 03, 2008).


• SLAC Site Report.
  HEPiX Fall 2008 at TWGrid at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (October 18-24, 2008).


• Data management and offline computing for LCLS.
  HEPiX Spring 2008 at CERN, Genève, Switzerland (May 5-9, 2008).


• My Home is Powered by the Sun - Residential Solar Photovoltaic. SLAC, March 6, 2008.


• Many-Core CPUs - Parallel Computing in HEP.
  HEPiX Spring 2007 at DESY, Hamburg, Germany (April 23-28, 2007).


• Lecture Series: "Introduction to Parallel Programming". SLAC, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007.


• AFS File Server Dos and Don'ts.
  AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2006, Ann Arbor, MI (June 2006)


• Lecture in the City College of San Fancisco's CS Department Lecture Series:
  SLAC's System Administration Philosophy, October 27, 2005.


• Voice over IP with Skype.
  HEPiX Fall 2005 at SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA (October 10-14, 2005).


• Concepts of Parallel Computing: Clustering and Shared Memory.
  Stanford University HPC Conference, August 15, 2005.


• Host and Service Monitoring at SLAC.
  Technical Seminar DESY Zeuthen, May 17, 2005.


• Host and Service Monitoring Efforts at SLAC.
  HEPiX Spring 2005 at Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe (GridKa), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (May 9-13, 2005).


• Lecture in the City College of San Fancisco's CS Department Lecture Series:
  High Performance Computing at SLAC, April 27, 2005.


• Talks for the Research Computing Initiative at Stanford University:
  • Introduction to Parallel Computing
  • SLAC's Cluster Philosophy
  February 16, 2005.


• AFS Server & Client Monitoring,
  OpenAFS Workshop at LISA 2004, (November 15, 2004)


• Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing
  in the Education Outreach Program of SC2004 Conference, Pittsburgh (PA) (November 8, 2004)


• Perl API to AFS monitoring and debugging tools,
  HEPiX Fall 2004 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, (October 2004).
  This talk was also given on my behalf by Stephan Wiesand (DESY) at the
  German AFS-Workshop 2004 at LRZ in München (Germany)


• Job Scheduling and Message Passing Interface,
  High Performance Computing Technology - 2nd Annual National Conference
  at Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA, (June 7-9, 2004).


• Report from the AFS Best Practices Workshop,
  HEPiX Spring 2004 at National e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK, (May 2004).


• High Performance Computing at SLAC
  in the IT & Tea Series, SLAC, May 12, 2004
  and at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, May 18, 2004.


• Full-day tutorial "Introduction to AFS and its Best Practices" at the AFS Best Practices Workshop
  at SLAC (Menlo Park, CA), March 22, 2004. Slides available upon request.


• The AFS Perl Module,
  AFS Best Practices Workshop at SLAC, March 22-26, 2004


• AFS at SLAC,
  Jet Propulsion Lab (Pasadena, CA), January 5, 2004


• Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing
  in the Education Outreach Program of SC2003 Conference, Phoenix (AZ) (November 15, 2003)


• AFS Perl Module,
  OpenAFS Workshop at LISA 2003, (October 26, 2003)


• 5 Things to do to make Cluster Security the least of your worries,
  Large Cluster SIG at HEPNT/HEPiX Fall 2003 at TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada), (October 2003)


• Delegating NIS group Administration,
  HEPNT/HEPiX Fall 2003 at TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada), (October 2003)


• Remote BIOS Upgrades of Intel Based Computers,
  HEPNT/HEPiX Spring 2003 at NIKHEF (The Netherlands), (May 2003)


• Kerberos 5 at SLAC, SLAC SCS Technical Seminar (December 11, 2002)


• Linux Hardware Evaluation at SLAC,
  HEPNT/HEPiX Spring 2002 at INFN (Italy), (April 2002)


• A General Purpose High Performance Linux Installation Infrastructure,
  HEPNT/HEPiX Fall 2001 at NERSC (USA), (October 2001)


• A General Purpose High Performance Linux Installation Infrastructure (June 28, 2001)


• Experiences with a first large Linux farm at SLAC,
  HEPNT/HEPiX Spring 2001 at LAL (France), (April 2001) (Slides, Video)


• Sichere und skalierbare Software-Infrastruktur, Colloquium des PC², Paderborn, April 19, 2001.


• An Introduction to AFS (March 5, 2001)


• Lecture Serious "Advanced Programming in Perl" for SLAC/SCS:
  • Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Perl (January 18, 2001)
  • Perl's Database Interface (DBI) (January 24, 2001)
  • Perl Modules - CPAN is your friend (February 1, 2001)
  • Secure Client-Server in Perl (February 8, 2001)


• Kerberos4 Implementation at DESY,
  HEPNT/HEPiX fall '99 at SLAC, (September 1999)


• Computing at DESY Zeuthen - An Introduction, Seminar for Summer Students, DESY Zeuthen, 3. August '99.


• Höchstleistungsrechnen in der Hochenergiephysik, Colloquium des PC², Paderborn, 1. July '99.


• Dienstprogramme für die komfortable AFS-Nutzung im DESY Zeuthen, Technisches Seminar DESY Zeuthen, 22. Juni '99.


• Making Site Independent Application Software Residing in AFS,
  HEPiX '99 at RAL, (April 1999)


• Introducing AFS Home Directories at DESY Zeuthen - Consequences for Users, Technical Seminar DESY Zeuthen, 29. September 98. (deutsche Version)


• UNIX Systems Installation and Administration with sue and cfengine,
  HEPiX '98 at Fermilab, (August 1998)


• Cfengine as New Systems Installation and Administration Tool at DESY,
  HEPiX '98 at CCIN2P3, Lyon (April 1998)


• Eine Einführung in paralleles Rechnen, Technical Seminar DESY Zeuthen, 4. März 97.