Computing and data handling recent experiences at Fermilab and SLAC

Conference · Mon Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:7139529

Cooper, P S

Computing has become evermore central to the doing of high energy physics. There are now major second and third generation experiments for which the largest single cost is computing. At the same time the availability of cheap'' computing has made possible experiments which were previously considered infeasible. The result of this trend has been an explosion of computing and computing needs. I will review here the magnitude of the problem, as seen at Fermilab and SLAC, and the present methods for dealing with it. I will then undertake the dangerous assignment of projecting the needs and solutions forthcoming in the next few years at both laboratories. I will concentrate on the offline'' problem; the process of turning terabytes of data tapes into pages of physics journals. 5 refs., 4 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 7139529
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-90/79; CONF-9004190-3; ON: DE90011480; TRN: 90-017980
• Resource Relation: Conference: Computing in high energy physics, Santa Fe, NM (USA), 9-13 Apr 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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