Regional research exploitation of the LHC: A case-study of the required computing resources

Summary, in English

A simulation study to evaluate the required computing resources for a research exploitation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been performed. The evaluation,vas done as a case study. assuming existence of a Nordic regional centre and using the requirements for per-forming a specific physics analysis as a yard-stick. Other input parameters were: assumption for the distribution of researchers at the institutions involved, an analysis model, and two different functional structures of the computing resources.

• Author: Sverker Almehed; Chafik Driouichi; Paula Eerola; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog; Torsten Åkesson
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2002
• Language: English
• Pages: 341-350
• Publication/Series: Computer Physics Communications
• Volume: 145
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00274-6
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Keywords: LHC; tier; simulation; computing; MONARC; high-energy physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0010-4655