Production Management

Project WBS Element Title

Production Management

Project WBS Element Definition

The element includes effort and software required for the operation 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 software that schedules and runs "jobs" on the farms and elsewhere, and that ensures that the data is moved to and from storage systems properly.

There are clearly issues of job scheduling, HSM and robotics, calibration constants, accounting and logging, executable version tracking, and other aspects of production systems. All of the systems must be able to smoothly handle the data as it comes from the experiments and also reprocessing of data where required. Other uses of the system for test data, special data sets, Monte Carlo datasets, etc. must also be taken into account

Project Scope and Deliverables

• Specification for farm hardware and network connectivity
• Proper understanding of the data formats and data flow as part of the production process
• Specification of the input and output of data to the HSM/robotics/shelf storage
• Software utilities for facilitating system startup, shutdown, upgrade/patching (including console and system monitoring). This software should be selected by evaluating a options from some combination of custom developed code, freeware, and commercial software.
• Necessary software to efficiently get/pass data to/from computational processes
• Necessary database interfaces in order to update and read from the databases for the production work
• Batch system or equivalent for scheduling, controlling, monitoring jobs
• Control Software to facilitate automated running of batch jobs
• Provide Ability to track job history and system usage.
• Ensure availability of development and test environment
• Appropriate documentation for each of the above elements

Project Status

Initial discussions of requirements and architecture started.

Project Manager

Marilyn Schweitzer

Project Liaisons

Stephen Wolbers (CDF), Heidi Schellman (D0), Lee Lueking (D0

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