학술논문

Grid Architecture for ALICE Experiment
Document Type
Conference
Source
2012 14th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2012 14th International Conference on. :1209-1214 Feb, 2012
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Authorization
Large Hadron Collider
Reliability
Authentication
Simple object access protocol
Encryption
Peer to peer computing
Grid
AliEn
Job Management
Transfer Management
Middleware
Language
ISSN
1738-9445
Abstract
According to the requirement of the Physics Data Challenge and many years of experiences from the actual operations, we propose the Grid Architecture for the ALICE Experiment. This architecture builds on AliEn2 framework and AliEn2 is the grid framework for the whole system's management and also provides the client interface for accessing the ALICE Grid platform. On the base of AliEn2, we adopt some middlewares to make the platform more flexible, availability and efficiency. At the end, the whole system has been worldwide deployed at around 88 sites for distributed production of raw data and Monte Carlo data, detector simulation, reconstruction and real data analysis. We observe the activities of the platform from different point of view and report the performance of the whole ALICE grid platform since the LHC first physics data 2010, 03–20.