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Apr 1, 2000
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The Promise of Computational Grids in the LHC Era
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Paul Avery
University of Florida
Speaker:
Paul Avery
The LHC era brings unprecedented challenges in information technology:
(1) providing rapid access to massive data stores of 100 PB or more and
(2) providing transparent access to heterogeneous computing resources
throughout the world across an ensemble of networks of varying
capability and reliability.
I discuss here how these challenges can be met by a hierarchical
computational Grid of data analysis centers linked by Gbps
networks. Such a Grid will allow physicists to play key roles in all
stages of the data analysis, from development of the reconstruction
programs and software infrastructure, to the extraction of first physics
results. This capability will be extended to physicists at their home
institutions through the use of an integrated distributed Grid system
architecture designed for efficient PetaByte-scale data access and
analysis.
Several Grid projects are already underway. The network-monitoring and
control software, and the modeling and optimization systems and methods,
will be widely applicable functional components that should also drive
the design and implementation of future distributed systems in HEP and
many other fields of science, engineering and industry.
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