Speaker
Mr
Ian Gable
(University of Victoria)
Description
The ATLAS Canada computing model consists of a Tier-1 computing centre located at
the TRIUMF Laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, and two distributed Tier-2 computing
centres: one in Eastern Canada and one in Western Canada. Each distributed Tier-2
computing centre is made up of a
group of universities. To meet the network requirements of each institution, HEPnet
Canada and CANARIE (Canada's National Research Network), in collaboration with other
research networks, have
constructed a series of lightpaths to connect the institutions involved. TRIUMF is
connected to CERN via a 10G circuit, a portion of which will be dropped at TRIUMF's
Tier-1 peer SARA/NIKEF in Amsterdam. Current Canadian ATLAS Tier-2 institutions are
connected to TRIUMF via 1G lightpaths, and routing between Tier-2s occurs through
TRIUMF. We discuss the architecture of the ATLAS Canada network, challenges of
building the network, and future plans for the network.
| Submitted on behalf of Collaboration (ex, BaBar, ATLAS) | On behalf of HEPnet Canada Collaboration |
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Primary author
Mr
Ian Gable
(University of Victoria)
