Published November 1, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

The L3 database system

  • 1. European Lab. for Particle Physics, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 2. Rome Univ. (Italy)
  • 3. INFN, Rome (Italy)
  • 4. Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research, Bombay (India)
  • 5. Lab. de Physique des Particules, LAPP, 74 - Annecy (France)
  • 6. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, CIEMAT, Madrid (Spain)
  • 7. World Lab., FBLJA Project, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 8. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
  • 9. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA (USA)
  • 10. Central Research Inst. for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)
  • 11. 1. und 3. Physikalisches Inst., RWTH Aachen (Germany)
  • 12. Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 13. Univ. Florence (Italy)
  • 14. INFN, Florence (Italy)
  • 15. Inst. of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP, Moscow (USSR)

Description

The database system developed for the L3 experiment at the CERN large electron-positron (LEP) collider is described. The solution chosen has two components: a FORTRAN package (DBL3) and a system of distributed servers and data (L3DBSM). DBL3 provides basic database functions supplemented by facilities specific to high-energy physics experiments. The L3DBSM system, operational since the start of LEP data taking, has handled efficiently several hundred Mbytes of data over three different systems (VAX/VMS, IBM VM/CMS, Apollo Aegis SR 10.x) and at eight different sites. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A
Journal Volume
309
Journal Issue
1/2
Series
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A.
Journal Page Range
318-330
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAE