Speaker
Mr
Federico Carminati
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Description
Following a previous publication, this study aims at investigating the impact of regional affiliations of centres on the organisation of collaboration within the Distributed Computing ALICE infrastructure, based on social networks methods. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to all centre managers about support, email interactions and wished collaborations in the infrastructure. Several additional measures, stemming from technical observations were produced, such as bandwidth, data transfers and Internet Round Trip Time (RTT) were also included. Information for 50 centres were considered (60\% response rate). Empirical analysis shows that despite the centralisation on CERN, the network is highly organised by regions. The results are discussed in the light of policy and efficiency issues.
Authors
Mr
Costin Grigoras
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Dr
Eric Widmer
(Dpt of Sociology, University of Geneva)
Mr
Federico Carminati
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Dr
Gil Viry
(Dpt of Sociology, University of Geneva)
Dr
Giuliana Galli Carminati
(University Hospital of Geneva)
