CDF computing Original Research Article

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) is a detector on the Tevatron, currently the worldʹs highest energy particle collider. Since the start of Run II in 2001, more than 1.4 fb−1 of physics data have been collected, resulting in 600 TBytes of raw data. To analyze all that data, CDF has deployed an efficient distributed computing system that serves both production needs and user analysis. This paper gives both an overview and a detailed description of the most prominent pieces.