After over 10 years of existence,DELPHI off-line software counts altogether over 1500k lines.Being written by multitude of authorsk,many of them having already left,it is very incoherent and extremely difficult to mai...
A description of the Linux Farm at the RHIC Computing Facility (RCF)is presented in this paper.The RCF is a dedicated data processing facility for RHIC,which became operational in the summer of 2000 at Brookhaven Nati...
The ZEUS experiment has migrated its reconstruction and analysis farms to a PC-based environment.More than one year of experience has been acquired with successful operation of an analysis farm designed for several hu...
We report on the first operations of the reconstruction farms for the D0 experiment.Data were read from a tape robot to 50 PC's running Linux,processed,spooled to a central disk buffer for merging and then written bac...
The simulation program developed by the "Models of Networked Analysis at Regional Centers"(MONARC) project is a powerful and flexible tool for simulating the behavior of large scale distributed computing systems,In th...
This note describes the construction of hardware and software of the BESPC-FARM and BES offline data analysis environment in Linux platform.The job management packages NQS is described.The performance of the BESPCFARM...
The necessity to distribute the data over the wide area network( WAN) to the physicists'home institutes will increase,and the effective utilization of the network becomes crucial,However,networks in the future WAN wil...
The MOSIX extensions to the Linux Operating System allow the creation of high-performance Linux Farms and an excellent integration of the several CPUs of the Farm,whose computational power can be furtherly inereased a...