“The Database Computing Project: Analyzing High- Energy Physics (HEP) Data” by Grossman
Conference:
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Title:
- The Database Computing Project: Analyzing High- Energy Physics (HEP) Data
Program Title:
- Showcase
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Project Affiliation:
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Description:
This is a scalable, extensible, object-oriented database designed to analyze HEP data from the SuperConducting SuperCollider Laboratory via simple queries. The results of these queries are visualized, enabling scientists to interactively indicate the presence of a new particle from among hundreds of thousands of less interesting events. Each event contains approximately 1,000K bytes of information. This large quantity of data—up to 1,000 terabytes per year—along with an expected 1,000 physicists highly distributed around the globe, requires a data access design that is able to handle an increase of approximately four orders of magnitude in total access.
