Data storage and management for high-energy physics: technical and sociological requirements

Author

Mount, Richard P.

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The requirements for data storage and management in experimental high-energy physics (HEP) are examined. Current and future needs for storage and access to data are presented briefly from both technical and sociological standpoints. Questions such as “file management or database management?” and “distributed or centralized data management?” are of vital interest to HEP and probably to other disciplines and businesses. These questions are discussed but inevitably are not fully answered

Keywords

database management systems; information retrieval; physics; physics computing; social aspects of automation; data management; data storage; database management; experimental HEP; file management; future needs; high-energy physics; sociological requirements; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Detectors; Educational institutions; Laboratories; Memory; Particle accelerators; Particle collisions; Particle measurements; Physics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1994. 'Towards Distributed Storage and Data Management Systems.' First International Symposium. Proceedings., Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Annecy

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5580-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1994.373023

Filename

373023