Reconstruction Farm and Processing Hardware
The element includes effort, hardware and software required for the procurement, commissioning of the offline production systems.
These include the farms, for the event reconstruction, and the systems which are used to split and prepare the data for the final physics analysis. In order to make use of these systems there must be adequate networking infrastructure, sufficient disk and memory configurations to run the reconstruction code in the environment designed by the production management project, and computing processing power deployed in a manner that can be manageably scaled by factors of 2-5 by replication or upgrades of individual processing units (as they become available).
Discussions of architecture have started as part of other projects.
Dane Skow
Michael Diesburg (D0), Steve Wolbers (CDF), Stephan Lammel (CDF)