The CMS online cluster: IT for a large data acquisition and control cluster

G. Bauer, B. Beccati, U. Behrens, K. Biery, A. Brett, J. Branson, E. Cano, H. Cheung, M. Ciganek, S. Cittolin, J. A. Coarasa, C. Deldicque, E. Dusinberre, S. Erhan, F. Fortes Rodrigues, D. Gigi, F. Glege, R. Gomez-Reino, J. Gutleber, D. HattonJ. F. Laurens, C. Loizides, J. A. Lopez Perez, F. Meijers, E. Meschi, A. Meyer, R. Mommsen, R. Moser, V. O'Dell, A. Oh, L. B. Orsini, V. Patras, C. Paus, A. Petrucci, M. Pieri, A. Racz, H. Sakulin, M. Sani, P. Schieferdecker, C. Schwick, J. F. Serrano Margaleff, D. Shpakov, S. Simon, K. Sumorok, M. Zanetti

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    Abstract

    The CMS online cluster consists of more than 2000 computers running about 10000 application instances. These applications implement the control of the experiment, the event building, the high level trigger, the online database and the control of the buffering and transferring of data to the Central Data Recording at CERN. In this paper the IT solutions employed to fulfil the requirements of such a large cluster are revised. Details are given on the chosen network structure, configuration management system, monitoring infrastructure and on the implementation of the high availability for the services and infrastructure. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number022002
    JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
    Volume219
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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