On the potential use of remote computing farms in the ATLAS TDAQ system

Author

Bee, C. ; Bold, T. ; Caron, B. ; Fairey, G. ; Hansen, J.B. ; Hansen, J.R. ; Hughes-Jones, R. ; Korcyl, K. ; Martin, Benoit ; Meirosu, Catalin ; Moore, R. ; Nielsen, Larry ; Pinfold, J. ; Soluk, R. ; Szymocha, T. ; Waananen, A.

Author_Institution

CERN, Eur. Organ. for Nucl. Res., Geneva

fYear

2005

fDate

10-10 June 2005

Abstract

The ATLAS experiment at CERN will require a large amount of computing resources for the online analysis system. The software and communication protocols in the ATLAS online analysis system are optimized for a cluster environment. We setup a geographically distributed testbed to evaluate the implications of integrating remote computing resources in this environment. This paper reports on the integration scenarios and analyzes the achieved performance. We highlight limitations in the communication protocols and suggest solutions for solving them. A proposal for employing grid-enabled resources to allow for on-demand expansion of the computing capabilities is presented at the end of the paper

Keywords

data acquisition; grid computing; physics computing; protocols; ATLAS TDAQ system; ATLAS online analysis system; communication protocol; data acquisition; geographically distributed testbed; grid-enabled resource; real time system; remote computing; software protocol; wide area network; Collaboration; Communication system software; Computerized monitoring; Detectors; Educational institutions; Filtering; Large Hadron Collider; Performance analysis; Protocols; Remote monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 2005. 14th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9183-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2005.1547534

Filename

1547534