Integrating Data Acquisition And Offline Processing Systems For Small Experiments At Fermilab

Integrating Data Acquisition and Offline Processing Systems for Small Experiments at Fermilab

Two small experiments at Fermilab are using the large UNIX central computing facility at Fermilab (FNALU) to analyze data. The data acquisition systems are based on {open_quotes}off the shelf{close_quotes} software packages utilizing VAX/VMS computers and CAMAC readout. As the disk available on FNALU approaches the sizes of the raw data sets taken by the experiments (50 Gbytes) we have used the Andrew File System (AFS) to serve the data to experimenters for analysis.

Computing In High Energy Physics: Chep '95 - Proceedings Of The International Conference

CHEP (Computing in High Energy Physics) is the largest international meeting of the communities of High Energy Physics, Computing Science and the Computing Industry. The sixth conference in this series was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 1995. The focus of the conference was “Computing for the next Millennium”. High Energy Physics is at a point where major changes in the way data acquisition and computing problems are addressed will be called for in the high energy physics programs of the year 2000 and beyond. The conference covered a wide spectrum of topics including Data Access, Storage, and Analysis; Data Acquisition and Triggering; Worldwide Collaboration and Networking; Tools, Languages, and Software Development Environments; and special purpose processing systems.The papers presented both recent progress and radical approaches to computing problems as candidates for the basis of future computing in the field of high energy physics.

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