International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2012)

none22The International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) was held at New York University on 21– 25 May 2012. CHEP is a major series of international conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the High Energy and Nuclear Physics community and related scientific and technical fields. The CHEP conference provides a forum to exchange information on computing progress and needs for the community, and to review recent, ongoing and future activities. CHEP conferences are held at roughly 18-month intervals, alternating between Europe, Asia, the Americas and other parts of the world. Recent CHEP conferences have been held in Taipei, Taiwan (2010); Prague, Czech Republic (2009); Victoria, Canada (2007); Mumbai, India (2006); Interlaken, Switzerland (2004); San Diego, United States (2003); Beijing, China (2001); Padova, Italy (2000). CHEP 2012 was organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and co-sponsored by New York University. The organizational structure for CHEP consists of an International Advisory Committee (IAC) which sets the overall themes of the conference, a Program Organizing Committee (POC) that oversees the program content, and a Local Organizing Committee (LOC) that is responsible for local arrangements (lodging, transportation and social events) and conference logistics (registration, program scheduling, conference site selection and conference proceedings). There were over 500 attendees with a program that included plenary sessions of invited speakers, a number of parallel sessions comprising around 125 oral and 425 poster presentations and industrial exhibitions. We thank all the presenters for the excellent scientific content of their contributions to the conference. Conference tracks covered topics on Online Computing, Event Processing, Distributed Processing and Analysis on Grids and Clouds, Computer Facilities, Production Grids and Networking, Software Engineering, Data Stores and Databases and Collaborative Tools.noneMichael Ernst;Dirk Düllmann;Ofer Rind;Tony Wong; Daniele Bonacorsi; Simone Campana; Philippe Canal; Sylvain Chapeland; Dirk Düllmann; Johannes Elmsheuser; Maria Girone; Steven Goldfarb; Oliver Gutsche; Benedikt Hegner; Andreas Heiss; Peter Hristov; Tony Johnson; David Lange; Adam Lyon; Axel Naumann; Niko Neufeld; Rolf SeusterMichael Ernst;Dirk Düllmann;Ofer Rind;Tony Wong; Daniele Bonacorsi; Simone Campana; Philippe Canal; Sylvain Chapeland; Dirk Düllmann; Johannes Elmsheuser; Maria Girone; Steven Goldfarb; Oliver Gutsche; Benedikt Hegner; Andreas Heiss; Peter Hristov; Tony Johnson; David Lange; Adam Lyon; Axel Naumann; Niko Neufeld; Rolf Seuste