from 27 September 2004 to 1 October 2004 (Europe/Zurich)
Interlaken, Switzerland
Europe/Zurich timezone
Results of the LHCb experiment Data Challenge 2004
Presented by J. CLOSIER
on
29 Sep 2004
from
16:30
to
16:50
Type: oral presentation
Track: Track 5 - Distributed Computing Systems and Experiences
content
The LHCb experiment performed its latest Data Challenge (DC) in May-July 2004.
The main goal was to demonstrate the ability of the LHCb grid system to carry out
massive production and efficient distributed analysis of the simulation data.
The LHCb production system called DIRAC provided all the necessary services for the
DC: Production and Bookkeeping Databases, File catalogs, Workload and Data
Management systems, Monitoring and Accounting tools. It allowed to combine in a
consistent way resources of more than 20 LHCb production sites as well as the LCG2
grid resources. 200M events constituting 90 TB of data were produced and stored in
6 Tier 1 centers. The subsequent analysis was carried out at CERN as well as in all
the Tier 1 centers to where preselected datasets were distributed. The GANGA User
Interface was used to assist users in preparation of their analysis jobs and
running them on the local and remote computing resources.
We will present the DC results, the experience gained utilising DIRAC and
LCG2 grids as well as further developments necessary to achieve the scalability
level of the real running LHCb experiment.
Place
Location: Interlaken, Switzerland
Room: Ballsaal
Primary authors
- J. CLOSIER CERN
- R. BERNET Universität Zürich
- I. KOROLKO ITEP, Moscow
- G. KUZNETSOV Rutherford Appleton Lab, Chilton
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