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Networking and ITS Issues for PHENIX* Charles F. Maguire
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Networking and ITS Issues for PHENIX* Charles F. Maguire Department of Physics and Astronomy*Major thanks to ACCRE staff: Mat Binkley, Bobby Brown, Kevin Buterbaugh, Mary Dietrich,Carie Kennedy, Santiago de Ledesma, Kelley McCauley, Kevin McCord, and Alan Tackethttp://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/accre/ Networking and ITS
13 Countries; 62 Institutions; 550 Participants* *as of March 2005
The PHENIX Detector EM Calorimeter Beam-Beam Counter Time Expansion Chamber Muon Tracking Chambers Central Arms Muon ID Panels Pad Chambers Multiplicity/Vertex Detector North Muon Arm Drift Chambers South Muon Arm Time of Flight Panels Ring Imaging Cerenkov Networking and ITS
Vanderbilt Role in PHENIX • Supervisor of 3 subsystems • Pad Chambers • New Time-of-Flight West • Simulation Software • Simulation Responsibility • Generate huge amounts of simulated data to check real analyses • Simulations done on ACCRE farm (5 TBytes in past 6 weeks) • Results are transported over the Internet to BNL at 10 Mbytes/second • ACCRE can generate simulations faster than we can ship them • Now exploring new faster modes of transport, up to 60 MBytes/secondCollaboration will request us to use gridFTP for this work (security for them) • New Proposal to DOE Planned for the Fall • Will import hundreds of TBytes of real data from BNL to ACCRE via gridFTP100 TBytes at 60 MBytes/second takes 20 daysProved to work this past Spring for a connection from BNL to Japan • Data will be reconstructed on ACCRE • Reconstruction results (tens of TBytes) will be immediately shipped back to BNL • The speed, reliability, and transparency of the network is the vital element Networking and ITS