Requirements for a system to analyze high energy physics events using database computing

Author

May, E. ; Lifka, D. ; Lusk, E. ; Price, L.E. ; Day, C.T. ; Loken, S. ; MacFarlane, J.F. ; Baden, A. ; Grossman, R. ; Qin, X. ; Cormell, L. ; Gauthier, A. ; Leibold, P. ; Marstaller, J. ; Nixdorf, U. ; Scipioni, B.

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

26-29 Apr 1993

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The authors describe the requirements for the design and prototyping of an object-oriented database designed to analyze data in high energy physics (HEP). The goal is to satisfy the data processing and analysis needs of a generic HEP experiment to be proposed for the Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC). The experiment requires the collection and analysis of between 100 million and one billion sets of vectors (events), each approximately one megabyte in length. The authors outline how this analysis would proceed using an object-oriented database which supports the basic data types used in HEP

Keywords

data analysis; object-oriented databases; physics computing; Superconducting SuperCollider; data analysis; data processing; design; high energy physics; object-oriented database; prototyping; Data analysis; Event detection; Laboratories; Mass production; Object oriented databases; Particle beams; Particle production; Physics computing; Production systems; Protons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1993. Putting all that Data to Work. Proceedings., Twelfth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3460-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1993.289780

Filename

289780