21-27 March 2009
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone
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Distributed Monte Carlo Production for DZero

Presented by Prof. joel SNOW on 26 Mar 2009 from 16:50 to 17:10
Type: oral
Track: Distributed Processing and Analysis

Content

DZero uses a variety of resources on four continents to pursue a strategy of flexibility and automation in the generation of simulation data. This strategy provides a resilient and opportunistic system which ensures an adequate and timely supply of simulation data to support DZero's physics analyses. A mixture of facilities, dedicated and opportunistic, specialized and generic, large and small, grid job enabled and not, are used to provide a production system that has adapted to newly developing technologies. This strategy has increased the event production rate by a factor of seven and the data production rate by a factor of ten in the last three years despite diminishing manpower. Common to all production facilities is the SAM (Sequential Access to Metadata) data-grid. Job submission to the grid uses SAMGrid middleware which may forward jobs to the OSG, the WLCG, or native SAMGrid sites. The distributed computing and data handling system used by DZero will be described and the results of MC production since the deployment of grid technologies will be presented.

Summary

Geographically and resource diverse DZero simulation production has grown substantially in recent years. Strategy, architecture, implementation, and results will be presented.

Presentation type

oral

Place

Location: Prague
Address: Prague Congress Centre 5. května 65, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic
Room: Club C

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