Data production of a large Linux PC Farm for the CDF experiment

The data production farm for the CDF experiment is designed and constructed to meet the needs of the Run II data collection at a maximum rate of 20 MByte/sec during the run. The system is composed of a large cluster of personal computers (PCs) with a high-speed network interconnect and a custom desi...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Antos, J, Babik, M, Chan, A W, Chen, Y C, Hou, S, Hsieh, T L, Lysak, R, Mandrichenko, I V, Siket, M, Syu, J, Teng, P K, Timm, S C, Wolbers, S A, Yeh, P
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 04.03.2006
Subjects
Computation
Control systems design
Data acquisition
Data processing
Experiments
Linux
Personal computers
Task scheduling
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Summary:The data production farm for the CDF experiment is designed and constructed to meet the needs of the Run II data collection at a maximum rate of 20 MByte/sec during the run. The system is composed of a large cluster of personal computers (PCs) with a high-speed network interconnect and a custom design control system for the flow of data and the scheduling of tasks on this PC farm. The farm explores and exploits advances in computing and communication technology. The data processing has achieved a stable production rate of approximately 2 TByte per day. The software and hardware of the CDF production farms has been successful in providing large computing and data throughput capacity to the experiment.
ISSN:2331-8422