Building and operating a distributed regional centre for LHC computing and data storage

Proceedings - 2011 7th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-188

  Smirnova, Oxana ^a,b   Behrmann, Gerd ^b   Grønager, Michael ^b   Johansson, Daniel ^b,c   Kleist, Josva ^b   Konstantinov, Aleksandr ^d   Kónya, Balázs ^a   Jensen, Henrik Thostrup ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Nordic Data Grid Facility   (Denmark)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Grid

Indexed keywords

DATA GRID; DATA STORAGE; GRID; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; LHC COMPUTING GRIDS; OVERALL DESIGN; REGIONAL CENTRES; SOFTWARE SERVICES;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856352121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2011.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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