LHCb foresee to run Computing Data Challenges every year until LHC starts operation with the aim of testing at the same time the Computing Model and the performance of their software.
Name |
Date |
Documents |
| CDC'04 | April-June 2004 | Production
monitoring Production accounting Book-keeping plots Brief summary of goals and capacity requirements (last updated 2003-09-05) Detailed estimates of capacity needs (also .xls) (last updated 2003-11-18) |
| CDC'05 | 2005 | Brief summary of goals (last updated 2003-09-05) |
It is foreseen that useful simulation data be produced during these Data Challenges, most probably “inclusive B” samples for which a very large number of events are required for trigger and high level trigger studies.
Name |
Date |
Documents |
| PDC1 | February-April 2003 | Summary of resource usage (also
.xls) Plots (DC progress, share of resources) CERN Bulletin article (2003/21) |
| PDC2 | Early 2006 | Large statistics simulation/reconstruction for physics studies (signal and b-decays background) will be needed in order to further assess the Physics performance of LHCb |
Date |
Documents |
| 2002 | Spreadsheet with capacity calculations |