• DocumentCode
    987745
  • Title

    BaBar simulation Production-a millennium of work in under a year

  • Author

    Smith, D.A. ; Blanc, F. ; Bozzi, C. ; Khan, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Volume
    53
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1299
  • Lastpage
    1303
  • Abstract
    The BaBar experiment requires simulated events beyond the ability of a single computing site to provide. This paper describes the evolution of simulation and job management methods to meet the physics community requirements and how production became distributed to use resources beyond any one computing center. The evolution of BaBar simulation along with the development of the distribution of the computing effort is described. As the computing effort is distributed to more sites there is a need to simplify production so the effort does not multiply with number of production centers. Tools are created to be flexible in handling errors and failures that happen in the system and respond accordingly, this reduces failure rates and production effort. This paper will focus on one cycle of simulation production within BaBar as a description of a large scale computing effort which was fully performed, and provided new simulation data to the users on time.
  • Keywords
    high energy physics instrumentation computing; particle detectors; BaBar simulation production; Linux; Solaris; distributed computing; job management methods; production management; Computational modeling; Discrete event simulation; Distributed computing; Job production systems; Large-scale systems; Linear accelerators; Linux; Physics computing; Production systems; Resource management; BaBar; Linux; Solaris; distributed computing; production management; simulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.2006.873080
  • Filename
    1645034