Speaker
Dr
Lucas Taylor
(Northeastern University, Boston)
Description
The CMS experiment is about to embark on its first physics run at the LHC. To
maximize the effectiveness of physicists and technical experts at CERN and
worldwide and to facilitate their communications, CMS has established several
dedicated and inter-connected operations and monitoring centers. These
include a traditional “Control Room” at the CMS site in France, a “CMS Centre”
for up to fifty people on the CERN main site in Switzerland, and remote
operations centers, such as the “LHC@FNAL” center at Fermilab.
We describe how this system of centers coherently supports the following
activities: (1) CMS data quality monitoring, prompt sub-detector calibrations,
and time-critical data analysis of express-line and calibration streams; and (2)
operation of the CMS computing systems for processing, storage and
distribution of real CMS data and simulated data, both at CERN and at offsite
centers.
We describe the physical infrastructure that has been established, the
computing and software systems, the operations model, and the
communications systems that are necessary to make such a distributed system
coherent and effective.
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Primary author
Dr
Lucas Taylor
(Northeastern University, Boston)
