Does HEP still hold challenges for computer science?

✍ Scribed by L.O. Hertzberger

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 708 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4655
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(89)90187-2

✦ Synopsis

The characteristics of High Energy Physics (HEP) as well as Computer Science (CS) are changing. In HEP the ever larger scale of experimentation results in a dramatic increase in the amount of data that has to be handled. Consequently, computing techniques have to be found to keep the data manageable. Computing science has become more mature, realizing that it has to develop models and techniques applicable to a wide range of problems. Moreover, the interest has shifted to computing problems in everyday life, where emphasis is more on symbolic than numeric computation.

It will be illustrated that HEP still offers challenges to CS, but that the nature of collaboration has changed considerably.