Speaker
Yves Kemp
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Description
Preserving data from past experiments and
preserving the ability to perform analysis with
old data is of growing importance in many
domains of science, including High Energy
Physics (HEP). A study group on this issue,
DPHEP, has been established in this field to
provide guidelines and a structure for
international collaboration on data
preservation projects in HEP. This contribution
aims at preparing experiments' software for
long term analysis and data preservation.
In a first part, we discuss the use of modern
techniques like virtualization or Cloud for
this purpose. In a second part, we detail
the constraints of a supporting IT center for
future legacy experiments. In a third part, we
present a framework that allows
experimentalists to validate their software
against a previously defined set of tests in
an automated way. We show first usage of the
system, and present results gained from the
experience with early-bird-users, and future
adaptations to the system.
Primary authors
Dmitry Ozerov
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Yves Kemp
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
