Frédéric Hemmer

FRÉDÉRIC HEMMER studied Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (and Computing) in Brussels. He joined CERN in 1984 where he served as Systems Engineer in Databases, Real-Time Systems and more generally Distributed Computing. In the 1990’s he became the software architect of the CERN SHIFT project aiming at moving High-Energy Physics applications from Mainframes to Distributed RISC/Unix systems, later migrated to PC/Linux systems. He has been the initial author of the RFIO remote file access protocol. From 1994 he took the responsibility of operating the Physics Data Processing Services at CERN (100’s of machines, Terabytes’s of data, Gigabit/second interconnections). As of 1998 he took responsibility of CERN Windows service (> 5000 computers) and later Mail and Web Services. In 2004 he joined the EGEE (Enabling Grid for E-sciencE) project where he served as Middleware Reengineering Manager (coordinating Grid Middleware development across 8 countries). In 2005 he was appointed as CERN Deputy IT Department Head.

 

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