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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 12: Computing

T 12.6: Talk

Monday, March 24, 2014, 12:15–12:30, P15

Next-generation Software Framework of the NA61/SHINE Experiment at CERN — •Marek Szuba¹, Andras Laszlo², Antoni Marcinek³, Tom Paul⁴, Roland Sipos², Michael Unger¹, Darko Veberic⁴, and Oskar Wyszynski³ for the NA61/SHINE collaboration — ¹Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany — ²Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest, Hungary — ³Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland — ⁴University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

NA61/SHINE is an experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, studying hadron production in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions to provide valuable contributions to a number of subjects, from neutrino through cosmic-ray to heavy-ion physics. Inaugurated in 2011, its software-upgrade project "Shine Offline" has aimed at providing a modern, extensible and more maintainable replacement for the legacy reconstruction, simulation, calibration and analysis software inherited by NA61/SHINE from its predecessor NA49 while at the same time providing continued support for legacy data format and mission-critical software components. This contribution presents an overview of design considerations, fundamental properties and architecture of Shine Offline, status of its components and results of comparative tests between the new framework and its legacy counterparts. A complementary topic of long-term preservation of NA61/SHINE software and data through the use of cloud computing shall be discussed as well.