Title :
Grid Architecture for ALICE Experiment
Author :
Zhu, Jianlin ; Saiz, Pablo ; Betev, Latchezar ; Carminati, Federico ; Grigoras, Costin ; Schreiner, Steffen ; Grigoras, Alina Gabriela ; Furano, Fabrizio ; Zhou, Daicui ; Zhang, Guoping
Author_Institution :
Central China Normal Univ., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
According to the requirement of the Physics Data Challenge and many years of experiences from the actual operations, we propose the Grid Architecture for the ALICE Experiment. This architecture builds on AliEn2 framework and AliEn2 is the grid framework for the whole system´s management and also provides the client interface for accessing the ALICE Grid platform. On the base of AliEn2, we adopt some middlewares to make the platform more flexible, availability and efficiency. At the end, the whole system has been worldwide deployed at around 88 sites for distributed production of raw data and Monte Carlo data, detector simulation, reconstruction and real data analysis. We observe the activities of the platform from different point of view and report the performance of the whole ALICE grid platform since the LHC first physics data 2010, 03-20.
Keywords :
data analysis; grid computing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; middleware; particle accelerators; A Large Ion Collider Experiment; ALICE experiment; ALICE grid platform; AliEn2 grid framework; Monte Carlo data production; data reconstruction; detector simulation; grid architecture; middleware; physics data challenge; raw data production; real data analysis; Authentication; Authorization; Encryption; Large Hadron Collider; Peer to peer computing; Reliability; Simple object access protocol; AliEn; Grid; Job Management; Middleware; Transfer Management;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
PyeongChang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0150-3