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Raw Data: Newly acquired raw data is stored on disk at Fermilab and copied to institutional storage in a timely fashion. This is done by copying the data to a UVA based server and then preserving the data on a RAID disk array owned and maintained by the UVA Spin Physics group.
The Fermilab E-1039/SpinQuest experiment is expecting to collect approximately 20 Tb of raw data between commissioning and the end of data acquisition. The raw data is subsequently processed and stored in ROOT files. This processed data will be approximately twice the size of the raw data. In In addition, there is a substantial volume of simulated, Monte Carlo events produced and stored at collaborating institutions and universities.
The raw data consists of event records from the CODA data acquisition system. These records contain the digitized hit information from the various detectors elements, including, for example, drift times from tracking chambers, hodoscope hits, scaler values, etc. The raw data from the SpinQuest detector are stored on disk, at a rate of about 0.3 TB/week, with information on the particles as they transverse the detector components as well as information on target polarization and target parameters. These data will be stored on-site at Fermilab in the experimental counting-house on a RAID disk array and backed up daily by the Fermilab Scientific Computing Division.
The raw data are then decoded and stored into ROOT files at Fermilab and at the University of Virginia (UVA). The decoding takes the information in the raw CODA data records and translates them into a more user-friendly format, for example, assigning specific wire numbers in tracking chambers to digitized drift time information or hodoscope numbers to hits. Further processing then occurs on these data to change the hits into reconstructed tracks and events that are also stored in ROOT files. For ease of access and data security, these files will be mirrored off-site at the University of Virginia on a RAID system.
It is the SpinQuest Collaboration’s policy that these raw data and processed data are available to collaboration members for use in collaboration-approved scientific studies and analyses. Completed analyses will be submitted for publication and shared with outside researchers. SpinQuest will maintain the ability to access these data indefinitely stored at UVA and as well as Fermilab maintaining a copy archived automatically.
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Provide appropriate networking at NM4 hall including WiFi in both the counting area and detector hall for commissioning, data transfers to mass storage, network access for users’ laptops, etc. Provide firewalls/bridges which Fermilab deems necessary to isolate the experiment’s network from the general Fermilab network.
Provide “General Computing” accounts for collaborators. Primary analysis and Monte Carlo computing will be done on LINUX-based PC’s provided by the collaboration.
Provide storage for 50 TB of raw data. The collaboration also plans to keep a second copy of the raw data on a RAID disk array stored and maintained at UVA.
Support for 4 virtual machines.
Access to grid resources including Open Science Grid and Fermigrid
Processed Data: After decoding the raw data is considered processed and is then stored into ROOT files at Fermilab and at the University of Virginia (UVA). The decoding takes the information in the raw CODA data records and translates them into a more user-friendly format, for example, assigning specific wire numbers in tracking chambers to digitized drift time information or hodoscope numbers to hits. Further processing then occurs on these data to change the hits into reconstructed tracks and events that are also stored in ROOT files. Processed data is initially stored on disk and migrated to institutional storage as required. The . The processed data will be approximately twice the size of the raw data after decoding. The processed data will be regularly copied to a UVA owned server and then copied to a RAID disk array owned and maintained by the Spin Physics group. The raw data from the SpinQuest detector are stored on disk, at a rate of about 0.3 TB/week, with information on the particles as they transverse the detector components as well as information on target polarization and target parameters. The processed data are also stored on disk for analysis by members of the SpinQuest research community to analyze. Processed data is in a format that will be analyzed with a ROOT based reconstruction and analysis framework.
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