GIOD Globally Interconnected Object Databases (A Caltech/CERN/HP Joint Project, in collaboration with RD45, HPSS and IT/CS groups at CERN)

28-May-98


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GIOD Globally Interconnected Object Databases (A Caltech/CERN/HP Joint Project, in collaboration with RD45, HPSS and IT/CS groups at CERN)

Topics covered

Introduction to the GIOD Project

Scope of the LHC Computing Challenge

GIOD Project Overview

GIOD Project Goals

GIOD Project Approval, Funding and Participants

GIOD Project Phases

CMS Software Architecture and Model

CMS-CERN/CMS-US Computing Infrastructure

The Role of the Project in CMS

How big is a PetaByte ?

How big is a PetaByte (contd.)

Earth Observing System (EOS): Data rates

EOS data distribution

Scaling Tests using Object Databases

Stars: Methods of Position Matching

Performance Criteria for Matching

Matching Speed, cuts vs. predicates vs. indexes

Matching Speed: platform comparisons (1)

Matching Speed: platforms comparisons (2)

Matching Speed: platform comparisons (3)

Matching Speed: many Simultaneous Clients

Matching Speed: many Simultaneous Clients (SPP2000)

Matching Speed: Database Location Independence

Matching Speed: Objectivity Client Cache

Objectivity LockServer Problems on the SPP2000

Meeting with Versant, September 24th. 1997

Comparing Objectivity and Versant for the “Stars” application

Comparing Objectivity and Versant: Database Creation

Comparing Objectivity and Versant: Population

Comparing Objectivity and Versant: Iterators/Lists

Comparing Objectivity and Versant: Predicates

Matching speed cuts and predicates

Accessing the Versant C++ database using Java

The Caltech/CACR HP Exemplar SPP2000

Cris Windoffer/JPL at the helm of the Caltech Exemplar

The SPP 2000 (contd.)

Loading the SPP2000 with Obj’y Queries

HP/UX, SPP/UX and the Exemplar SPP 2000 at Caltech

HPSS Configuration at Caltech/CACR

HPSS Statistics Plots

Tests with the HPSS NFS Interface at Caltech

Other HPSS items

Project Cyclops: Live HPSS Robot video to Java Applet

Project Cyclops: The Virtual Vault

Software Licenses at Caltech

CMS H2 Test Beam Data and Analysis Code

“Vincenzo Week” at Caltech, 22nd.-26th. September

Objectivity Database Replication from CERN to Caltech (1)

Objectivity Database Replication from CERN to Caltech (2)

Using Objectivity/DB

The CMS Monte Carlo Simulation Program: CMSIM

Results from a CMS111 run on the SPP 2000

Author: Preferred Customer

Email: julian.bunn@cern.ch

Home Page: http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu