21–25 May 2012
New York City, NY, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Computing at Belle II

22 May 2012, 16:35
25m
Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (Kimmel Center)

Eisner & Lubin Auditorium

Kimmel Center

Parallel Distributed Processing and Analysis on Grids and Clouds (track 3) Distributed Processing and Analysis on Grids and Clouds

Speaker

Thomas Kuhr (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Description

The Belle II experiment, a next-generation B factory experiment at KEK, is expected to record a two orders of magnitude larger data volume than its predecessor, the Belle experiment. The data size and rate are comparable to or more than the ones of LHC experiments and requires to change the computing model from the Belle way, where basically all computing resources were provided by KEK, to a more distributed scheme. The Belle II distributed computing system is based on DIRAC which provides an interface to grid and cloud resources, and AMGA for the management of file metadata. A common software framework is used in the whole chain from the data acquisition up to the analysis. It has a modular design, is steered via python files, and supports parallel execution on multi-core nodes. In this talk the status and plans of the Belle II computing system and its main components are presented.

Primary authors

Takanori HARA (KEK) Thomas Kuhr (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

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