Computing

Organization

• See notes on LBNE Computing Effort Organization. In 2014, there are 3 active groups reporting to LBNE spokespersons:
  • Physics Tools
  • Software and Computing
  • Online and Data Acquisition

• Computing Planning Process

• Computing Calendar
  • Standing meetings
    • List of important simulation and reconstruction meetings, including DAQ and 35t related topics
    • FNAL Indico Pages for the biweekly Software and Computing conference call
  • Upcoming events
    • HEP Software Foundation Meeting at SLAC: January 20-21 2015
    • Upcoming LBNE Collaboration Meeting: January 22-25 2015 (links TBA)
    • XRootD workshop at SLAC: January 27-29 2015
  • Recent Events
    • Feb 2014 Software Workshop
    • Collaboration Meetings: February 2014, July 2014

Priorities

• General Priorities
• Preparations for the 35t LArTPC Prototype Test

Software

Major Software Components and Tools

• art, a ROOT-based suite of tools, libraries, and applications for processing detector events.
• LArSoft, a art-based framework for simulating liquid argon drift detectors. As of Jan 24, 2014, LArSoft transitioned from svn/SRT to git/mrb/ups.

New Tools

• worch, a meta-build orchestration system based on waf framework.
• GGD, a Geometry Description system. Also see this dedicated geometry page.

Facilities

FNAL

• Overview of Computing at FNAL
• Central computing facility at FNAL: Fermigrid
• Storage:dCache status
• Storage:Enstore status (mass storage)

BNL

• The RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility: (RACF)
• The US ATLAS: Facilities Page (useful links)

Open Science Grid

While not a facility or even an owner of a facility, the Open Science Grid (OSG) Consortium, is an important component of the national Grid Computing infrastructure in the US and it facilitates access to High-Throughput Computing facilities for many research institutions and collaborations. LBNE enjoys the support of the OSG and has a Virtual Organization (VO) status with the Consortium.

• Gratia monitoring tool which shows Open Science Grid resource utilization.