High Energy Physics Data Management and Access - How Fermilab handles the
data
Speaker : Ms. Ruth Pordes, Computing Division at Fermilab
Time : Friday, December 15th, 3:00 pm - 4 pm.
Location
:
Stuart
Building Room # 111 (SB 111)
Each generation of High Energy Physics Experiments archives data to tens Short
bio of the speaker: Ms.
Ruth Pordes is an Associate Head of the Computing Division at Fermilab.
of thousands of tapes in whatever the latest technology serial medium can
support. With 60Gbyte tapes here CDF and D0 require access to about 1
Petabyte
of storage a year starting from March 2001. BTeV, which is
scheduled to run
about 2005 will look to archive and subsequently access
several times that
amount of data. The talk will discuss the architecture
and design of the detector trigger,
data acquisition and data access
systems. The globally distributed nature
of HEP collaborations adds extra
dimensions to the problem which have led
to strong interest in current Data
Grid initiatives.
(http://www.fnal.gov). She has been involved in many projects in support of
Data Acquisition and Data Handling for the High Energy Physics Experiments
at the Laboratory. She has an MA in Physics from Oxford University. Ruth was
the project leader for DART - a data acquisition framework used by 8
experiments at Fermilab during the 1995 Fixed Target data taking run. More
recently she was Task Coordinator of the CDF/D0/CD Joint Offline Projects
which developed common tools for the 2 large collider experiments who will
take data starting in March 2001.