As of 2004, this web is now frozen. The name "HEPNT", which referred to "Windows NT" for HEP, is no longer appropriate! HEP Windows coordination and information exchange, however, continues today in the context of the HEPiX group and its regular meetings.
Some history now follows for the record...
The HEPNT group was originally formed as a closed sub-group of HEP-CCC/HTASC in May 1997 to advise on and coordinate the use of Windows NT in High Energy Physics. See the list of members, the terms of reference and the aims of the group.
The closed sub-group of HTASC came to the end of its mandate in May 1999. At that time it was recognised that there was still very much a need to exchange information and to coordinate between HEP sites. It was agreed that HEPNT would therefore live on as an open forum via joint meetings with the HEPiX-HEPNT group. This enabled the exchange of information between the two groups and consideration of topics of joint interest.
In March 2000 a new sub-group of HTASC
was created to coordinate Windows 2000 and active directory issues in HEP. This
met for just over two years.
See the link to the HTASC Windows 2000
coordination group.
Several interim reports were written by this group. The final report may be
found here.
The first open HEPNT meeting was held at
CERN
on 2-4 December, 1998
Meetings then continued jointly with HEPiX, called HEPiX-HEPNT meetings at
SLAC on 4-8 October, 1999
Braunschweig
on 3-6 April 2000
Jefferson Lab
on 30 October to 3 November 2000
LAL,
Orsay on 23-27 April 2001
LBNL (NERSC) on 15-18
October 2001
INFN
(Catania) on 15-19 April 2002
NIKHEF on 19-23 May 2003
TRIUMF on 20-24
October 2003
Future discussions on Windows issues now continue under the auspices of HEPiX (May 2004 onwards)
The management of Windows systems involves a wide range of configuration choices. We discussed many of the issues at meetings of the closed HEPNT sub-group and the original aim of this web was to share this information with the HEP community. This was to include technical recommendations, experiences of the members of the group in the form of presentations made at the various meetings, information from HEP sites running Windows and pointers to other sources of related information. The information in this web is now rather sparse and rather out of date!