PC farms for offline event reconstruction at Fermilab

Conference · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:646337

Beretvas, A. ^[1]; Cheng, M. T. ^[2]; Chang, P. T. ^[2]; Donno, F. ^[3]; Fromm, J. ^[1]; Holmgren, D. ^[1]; Huang, C. H. ^[1]; Liu, Y. C. ^[2]; Petravick, D. ^[1]; Sieh, C. ^[1]; Stox, K. ^[1]; Teng, P. K. ^[2]; Thayalan, K. ^[1]; Wolbers, S. ^[1]; Yeh, G. P. ^[1]; Yeh, P. ^[2]

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1. Fermilab
2. Taiwan, Inst. Phys.
3. Frascati

Fermilab is investigating the use of PC`s for HEP computing. As a first step we have built a full offline environment under Linux on a set of Pentium (P5) and Pentium Pro (P6) machines (the ``PC Farm``). The Pythia simulation has been ported to run serially and in parallel (using CPS) on the PC Farm. Fermilab software products and CDF offline packages have also been ported to Linux. Run 1 CDF data has been analyzed on both Linux and SGI (Irix) with essentially identical results. The performance of the system is compared to results with commercial UNIX systems.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 646337
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-97-044; FERMILAB-CONF-97-077; oai:inspirehep.net:444249
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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