Speaker
Dr
Roberto Santinelli
(CERN/IT/GD)
Description
The 2006 data challenge – LHCb DC06 – is the final benchmark before the real
data taking for validating the computing model and the infrastructure of LHCb
and also a last opportunity for exercising the whole simulation chain on EGEE
resources. For the past few years, LHCb has always been one of the top users
of LCG resources gathering considerable experience in distributed computing at
a large scale. The central part of the system is DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure
with Remote Agent Control), which is the experiment gateway to the Grid
environment. The aim of this work is to present a preliminary experience from
this ongoing DC06 and its goals, describing the DIRAC system, the
performances achieved, and the problems observed.
The DC06 has started in August 2006 and it is expected to continue until the
end of September.
We will therefore describe the achievements and the plans for the continuation
of this activity.
Author
Dr
Roberto Santinelli
(CERN/IT/GD)
Co-authors
Dr
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
(Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)
Dr
Nicholas Brook
(CERN/PH/LBC)
Dr
Philippe Charpentier
(CERN/PH/LBC)