The computing environment: A summary of the Asilomar Conference on Computing in High Energy Physics

Abstract

The Asilomar Conference on Computing in High Energy Physics took as its theme the Computing Environment. This summary paper attempts to give a broad perspective of the material presented at the conference, using a framework with an emphasis on the points of particular relevance for off-line computing by experimental high energy physicists. It can be used as an introduction and guide to the other papers or to give a relatively briefoverview of our computing environment.