Data Distribution Model
Offline Processor Farm ~10 TIPS
USA Regional Centre ~1 TIPS
or Air Freight (deprecated)
There is a “bunch crossing” every 25 nsecs.
There are 100 “triggers” per second
Each triggered event is ~1 MByte in size
Physicists work on analysis “channels”.
Each institute will have ~10 physicists working on one or more channels
Data for these channels should be cached by the institute server