Computing strategy of Alpha-Magnetic Spectrometer experiment

Alpha-Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is an experiment to search in the space for dark matter, missing matter, and antimatter scheduled for being flown on the International Space Station in the fall of year 2005 for at least 3 consecutive years. This paper gives an overview of the AMS software with emph...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2003-04, Vol.502 (2), p.461-466
Main Authors: Choutko, V., Klimentov, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Acat
AMS
Compute system
Corba
Experimental software
Oracle
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Summary:Alpha-Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is an experiment to search in the space for dark matter, missing matter, and antimatter scheduled for being flown on the International Space Station in the fall of year 2005 for at least 3 consecutive years. This paper gives an overview of the AMS software with emphasis on the distributed production system based on client/server approach. We also describe our choice of hardware components to build a processing farm with TByte RAID arrays of IDE disks and highlight the strategies that make our system different from many other experimental systems.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/S0168-9002(03)00470-4