Title :
A High Performance Online Storage System for the LHCb Experiment
Author :
Cherukuwada, Sai Suman ; Neufeld, Niko
Author_Institution :
Eur. Org. for Nucl. Res., Geneva
Abstract :
This document describes the architecture of the LHCb storage system, and discusses the key criteria which formed the basis of the evaluation of the system. The configuration and implementation of the current solution and its capabilities are also described, accompanied by performance figures.
Keywords :
RAID; data acquisition; fault tolerant computing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; particle detectors; public domain software; LHCb storage system; data acquisition; fault tolerance; high performance online storage system; large hadron collider beauty detector; open source software; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Data acquisition; Fault tolerance; File servers; Helium; Large Hadron Collider; Particle beams; Spectroscopy; Throughput; DirectRAID; RAID; event data; fault tolerance; storage;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2007.913481
