A search for neutrinos from the solar hep reaction and the diffuse supernova neutrino background with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 653:2 (2006) 1545-1551
Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV -: art. no. 052002
PHYSICAL REVIEW D 73:5 (2006) ARTN 052002
Search for W and Z bosons in the reaction (p)over-barp → two jets plus γ at √s=1.8 TeV -: art. no. 012001
PHYSICAL REVIEW D 73:1 (2006) ARTN 012001
Performance implications of virtualization and hyper-threading on high energy physics applications in a grid environment
Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005 2005 (2005)
Abstract:
The simulations used in the field of high energy physics are compute intensive and exhibit a high level of data parallelism. These features make such simulations ideal candidates for Grid computing. We are taking as an example the GEANT4 detector simulation used for physics studies within the ATLAS experiment at CERN. One key issue in Grid computing is that of network and system security, which can potentially inhibit the wide spread use of such simulations. Virtualization provides a feasible solution because it allows the creation of virtual compute nodes in both local and remote compute clusters, thus providing an insulating layer which can play an important role in satisfying the security concerns of all parties involved. However, it has performance implications. This study provides quantitative estimates of the visualization and hyper-threading overhead for GEANT on commodity clusters. Results show that virtualization has less than 15% run-time overhead, and that the best run time (with the non-SMP licence of ESX VMware) is achieved by using one virtual machine per CPU. We also observe that hyper-threading does not provide an advantage in this application. Finally, the effect of virtualization on run-time, throughput, mean response time and utilization is estimated using simulations.Search for periodicities in the B8 solar neutrino flux measured by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72:5 (2005)