9–13 Jul 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Europe/Sofia timezone

A simulation tool for ALICE storage and computing resource usage

10 Jul 2018, 16:00
1h
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

National Culture Palace, Boulevard "Bulgaria", 1463 NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria
Poster Track 3 – Distributed computing Posters

Speakers

Armenuhi Abramyan (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM)) Narine Manukyan (A.Alikhanyan National Laboratory (AM))

Description

The LHC experiments produce petabytes of data each year, which must be stored, processed and analyzed. This requires a significant amount of storage and computing resources. In addition to that, the requirements to these resources are increasing over the years, at each LHC running period.
In order to predict the resource usage requirements of the ALICE Experiment for a particular LHC Run period, we developed flexible and highly configurable simulation tool, which performs discrete event simulation of ALICE data flow processes by taking into account the LHC running conditions and schedule, data management/removal policies, conferences and other criteria.
The tool provides a Web GUI, which allows entering of all the necessary parameters and to graphically visualize the results of simulations, which are done using SIM.JS JavaScript library.
In this paper we will describe the design and the functional structure of the aforementioned tool and present the preliminary results of the simulations.

Primary authors

Armenuhi Abramyan (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM)) Narine Manukyan (A.Alikhanyan National Laboratory (AM)) Tim Hallyburton (Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (D)

Co-authors

Predrag Buncic (CERN) Latchezar Betev (CERN) Ara Grigoryan (A.Alikhanyan National Laboratory (AM))

Presentation materials