AliEn (ALICE Environment)
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AliEn is a lightweight Grid framework
developed by CERN
. It is built around Open Source components using the combination of Web Service and distributed agent model. It is being developed by the ALICE
collaboration as a production environment for the simulation, reconstruction and analysis of physics data.
Grid computing
Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...
developed by CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
. It is built around Open Source components using the combination of Web Service and distributed agent model. It is being developed by the ALICE
A Large Ion Collider Experiment
ALICE is one of the six detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The other five are: ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, and LHCf. ALICE is optimized to study heavy ion collisions. Pb-Pb nuclei collisions will be studied at a centre of mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon...
collaboration as a production environment for the simulation, reconstruction and analysis of physics data.
Description
Central services
The central services are the services that run at CERN.