Speaker
Marco La Rosa
(University of Melbourne)
Description
In 2004 the Belle Experimental Collaboration reached a critical stage in their
computing requirements. Due to an increased rate of data collection an extremely
large amount of simulated (Monte Carlo) data was required to correctly analyse and
understand the experimental data. The resulting simulation effort consumed more CPU
power than was readily available to the experiment at the host institution, KEK,
Japan. In order to meet requirements the simulated data production was distributed
to remote institutions who were able to contribute CPU power. The Australian
Belle collaborators participated in this production successfully utilising resources
at number of Australian facilities, including APAC (Australian Partnership for
Advanced Computing), AC3 (Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and
Communication), MARCC (Melbourne Advanced Research Computing Centre), and VPAC
(Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing). This production involved the use of a
globally accessible data catalogue and resource management system, SRB (Storage
Resource Broker), and tools developed in-house for the central dispatch, monitoring
and management of jobs. The production was successfully deployed on the Australian
APAC National Grid (APAC NG) infrastructure and is currently utilising the LHC
Computing Grid middleware layer.
Primary authors
Glenn Moloney
(University of Melbourne)
Lyle Winton
(University of Melbourne)
Marco La Rosa
(University of Melbourne)
