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["Douglas Olson" <dlolson@lbl.gov>]

CHEP'98 Abstract Submission
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name: Douglas Olson
 institute: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 street: MS 50A-1148
1 Cyclotron Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
 email: dlolson@lbl.gov
 title: The High-Energy and Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Project
 author: D. L. Olson, for the HENP-GC Collaboration
 equipment: PC, PowerPoint97 projector
 abstract: This paper describes the DOE computational Grand Challenge
project (HENP-GC)
working in the area of access to massive datasets for
experimental high-energy and nuclear physics. One of twelve grand
challenge projects funded by the DOE Office of Mathematics, Information
and Computational Sciences from the High Performance Computing Initiative,
this is a collaboration of physicists and computer scientists
from several DOE laboratories. While many of the problems associated with
accessing experimental physics data are common across all of the major
experiments coming online in the next few years, the implementation
being developed is focussed on the experiments at the Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The RHIC experiments will begin operations in the fall of 1999 and
are expected to generate more than 1 PB of data per year in normal
operations.

The HENP-GC project began just over one year ago and is expected to continue
through FY99. A software architecture was developed in the first year
and a prototype implementation has been developed at the NERSC
facilities. Installation and integration of the software at the RHIC
Computing Facility will occur in the near future, in preparation for
the mock data challenges scheduled for 1998 and 1999.
Instrumentation of the software for monitoring performance and actual
data access patterns is planned for the coming year.
A long-term goal is to learn enough from the queries and access patterns
in order to determine effective clustering strategies (by type and by value)
appropriate for the type of access used.

The current status of the project as well as the roles of the various groups
will be described.
 presentation: oral
 session: Mass_Storage_and_Data_Management


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