The ATLAS computing model: status, plans and future possibilities
The ATLAS collaboration [The ATLAS webpage is located at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/index.html. [1]] has been preparing for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running for more than 20 years. By summer of 2007 we expect the first colliding beams of protons and the start of a data deluge involving many petabytes of data per year. The collaboration is eagerly anticipating the many possible scientific discoveries which may lie hidden in this massive amount of information. I will discuss how the ATLAS collaboration is planning to manage this large amount of data and provide physicists the infrastructure required to: Calibrate and align detector subsystems to produce well understood data; Realistically simulate the ATLAS detector and underlying physics of interest; Provide access to ATLAS data globally; Define, manage, search and analyze data-sets of interest.
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