Open AccessNext-Generation Navigational Infrastructure and the ATLAS Event Store
Author(s) -
P. van Gemmeren,
D. Malon,
Marcin Nowak
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/513/5/052036
Subject(s) - computer science , multithreading , exploit , variety (cybernetics) , event (particle physics) , architecture , atlas (anatomy) , database , operating system , thread (computing) , art , computer security , artificial intelligence , visual arts , biology , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics
The ATLAS event store employs a persistence framework with extensive navigational capabilities. These include real-time back navigation to upstream processing stages, externalizable data object references, navigation from any data object to any other both within a single file and across files, and more. The 2013-2014 shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider provides an opportunity to enhance this infrastructure in several ways that both extend these capabilities and allow the collaboration to better exploit emerging computing platforms. Enhancements include redesign with efficient file merging in mind, content-based indices in optimized reference types, and support for forward references. The latter provide the potential to construct valid references to data before those data are written, a capability that is useful in a variety of multithreading, multiprocessing, distributed processing, and deferred processing scenarios. This paper describes the architecture and design of the next generation of ATLAS navigational infrastructure