LHCb distributed data analysis on the computing grid

Paterson, Stuart Keble (2006) LHCb distributed data analysis on the computing grid. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

LHCb is one of the four Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments based at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The LHC experiments will start taking an unprecedented amount of data when they come online in 2007. Since no single institute has the compute resources to handle this data, resources must be pooled to form the Grid. Where the Internet has made it possible to share information stored on computers across the world, Grid computing aims to provide access to computing power and storage capacity on geographically distributed systems. LHCb software applications must work seamlessly on the Grid allowing users to efficiently access distributed compute resources. It is essential to the success of the LHCb experiment that physicists can access data from the detector, stored in many heterogeneous systems, to perform distributed data analysis. This thesis describes the work performed to enable distributed data analysis for the LHCb experiment on the LHC Computing Grid.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
• Colleges/Schools: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Supervisor's Name: Soler, Dr. Paul and Saxon, Prof. David
• Date of Award: 2006
• Depositing User: Mrs Marie Cairney
• Unique ID: glathesis:2006-1077
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 28 Aug 2009
• Last Modified: 10 Dec 2012 13:32
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1077