Alan Campbell31.3.99

A new commodity PC farm for H1 ( using Linux )

The purpose of this talk/document is
to initiate discussion on project goals
and ask H1 ( and others ) for ideas.

Remember:PC-Farm is the future of computing in HEP
Overall Goal: Bring this future to H1
Requirements: Offline computing - datafile access, batch
Online ( L45 ) computing - high reliability, guaranteed performance

"Call for ideas"
"Request for Concepts"
"BoF Birds of Feather Session"

To start this discussion I will present some initial thoughts on the following:

An extension to H1 application framework ( BOS/FSEQR/module steering ) to enable parallel processing.

Network communication software and hardware topology