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Apr 1, 2000
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The D0 Monte Carlo Challenge
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Gregory Graham1,
Boaz Klima2
- University of Maryland
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
Speaker:
Gregory Graham
The D0 Monte Carlo Challange (MCC) is an effort to test D0 software systems
on a large scale in advance of Run II at Fermilab. The goals of the MCC are
to test the D0 detector simulation (D0GSTAR), the reconstruction (D0RECO), and
the trigger simulation (D0TRIG). Important infrastructure, such as the
Sequential Access Method (SAM) at Fermilab and PC production and
reconstruction farms, are also being tested. In addition, we will use the
Monte Carlo events to estimate trigger rates to evaluate the physics potential
of D0.
We plan on generating about 500,000 Monte Carlo events. The D0GSTAR program
is a GEANT 3.21 based simulation of the D0 detector wrapped in C++ code.
Typical events are about 3 MB in size and require about 6 minutes of CPU time
on an SGI R12000 processor. It is estimated that about 1.5 TB of Monte Carlo
data will be stored. The MCC production will take advantage of distributed
computing resources around the world; including a 64 processor SGI Origin
2000 at Fermilab and PC farms running the Linux operating system.
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