The Compute Challenge

• During the design, construction and running stages of a detector its expected behaviour needs to be simulated.

• This is done using Monte Carlo simulation programs that produce "raw" (or nearly raw) data.

• To get physics out of the "raw" (simulated or recorded) data it needs to be processed. The typical processing steps are:

  • callibration, reconstruction and analysis

• Each step requires massive amounts of CPU power.

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