Plans for Data Challenge (status mid-2002)

The table below summarizes the currently planned DC’s in LHCb as well as the participating sites.

Year

Participating sites Planned DC’s

2002

Tier 0/1: CERN

 

Tier 1 : Bologna, IN2P3, RAL, Nikhef, Moscow (September)

 

Tier 2 : Liverpool, Oxford, Bristol, Edinburgh/Glasgow

CDC
June/

September

·        Evaluate installation procedures

·        Test job submission to fixed site with EDG

·        Control with PVSS

·        Prototype of new data management database (bookkeeping)

·        Prototype of configuration database

·        Measure production rates and network throughput at RCs

·        Implement data quality checking

·        First tests of job submission with resource broker

·        Test with analysis

PDC

June/July

·        LHCb-light, trigger TDRs

2003

+

Barcelona, Switzerland, Germany, Poland

CDC

·        Production with job submission via the resource broker

·        Run new data management DB in production

·        First prototype of Ganga

PDC

   June/July         HLT studies

2004

+

 

 

????

CDC

·        Production version of Ganga

·        Test the analysis model

·        Full use of Grid

·        Use of Gauss (G4 based simulation) in production

·        Tests of data quality checking in production