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On the Verge of One Petabyte - the Story Behind the BaBar Database System
The BaBar database has pioneered the use of a commercial ODBMS within the HEP
community. The unique object-oriented architecture of Objectivity/DB has made
it possible to manage over 700 terabytes of production data generated since
May'99, making the BaBar database the world's largest known database. The
ongoing development includes new features, addressing the ever-increasing
luminosity of the detector as well as other changing physics requirements.
Significant efforts are focused on reducing space requirements and operational
costs. The paper discusses our experience with developing a large scale
database system, emphasizing universal aspects which may be applied to any
large scale system, independently of underlying technology used.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
(CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 6 pages. PSN MOKT01
Status Report of the DPHEP Study Group: Towards a Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics
Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with
significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. An
inter-experimental study group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis
was convened as a panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators
(ICFA). The group was formed by large collider-based experiments and
investigated the technical and organisational aspects of HEP data preservation.
An intermediate report was released in November 2009 addressing the general
issues of data preservation in HEP. This paper includes and extends the
intermediate report. It provides an analysis of the research case for data
preservation and a detailed description of the various projects at experiment,
laboratory and international levels. In addition, the paper provides a concrete
proposal for an international organisation in charge of the data management and
policies in high-energy physics
BdbServer++: A User Driven Data Location and Retrieval Tool
The adoption of Grid technology has the potential to greatly aid the BaBar
experiment. BdbServer was originally designed to extract copies of data from
the Objectivity/DB database at SLAC and IN2P3. With data now stored in multiple
locations in a variety of data formats, we are enhancing this tool. This will
enable users to extract selected deep copies of event collections and ship them
to the requested site using the facilities offered by the existing Grid
infrastructure. By building on the work done by various groups in BaBar, and
the European DataGrid, we have successfully expanded the capabilities of the
BdbServer software. This should provide a framework for future work in data
distribution.Comment: Paper based on the poster from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and
Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 4 pages, LaTeX, 0
figures. PSN TUCP01
Event Indexing Systems for Efficient Selection and Analysis of HERA Data
The design and implementation of two software systems introduced to improve
the efficiency of offline analysis of event data taken with the ZEUS Detector
at the HERA electron-proton collider at DESY are presented. Two different
approaches were made, one using a set of event directories and the other using
a tag database based on a commercial object-oriented database management
system. These are described and compared. Both systems provide quick direct
access to individual collision events in a sequential data store of several
terabytes, and they both considerably improve the event analysis efficiency. In
particular the tag database provides a very flexible selection mechanism and
can dramatically reduce the computing time needed to extract small subsamples
from the total event sample. Gains as large as a factor 20 have been obtained.Comment: Accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communication
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