Published June 2014 | Version v1
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How to deal with petabytes of data: the LHC Grid project

Creators

  • 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
  • 2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London (United Kingdom)

Description

We review the Grid computing system developed by the international community to deal with the petabytes of data coming from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva with particular emphasis on the ATLAS experiment and the UK Grid project, GridPP. Although these developments were started over a decade ago, this article explains their continued relevance as part of the 'Big Data' problem and how the Grid has been forerunner of today's cloud computing. (review article)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/77/6/065902

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0034-4885/77/6/065902;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Reports on Progress in Physics
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
[16 p.]
ISSN
0034-4885
CODEN
RPPHAG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
46059676
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CERN; CERN LHC; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING; GRIDS; MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; REVIEWS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DATA PROCESSING; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELECTRODES; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS