EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2020)

The ATLAS EventIndex for LHC Run 3

  • Barberis Dario,
  • Aleksandrov Igor,
  • Alexandrov Evgeny,
  • Baranowski Zbigniew,
  • Dimitrov Gancho,
  • Fernández Casaní Álvaro,
  • Gallas Elizabeth J.,
  • García Montoro Carlos,
  • González de la Hoz Santiago,
  • Hrivnac Julius,
  • Kazymov Andrei,
  • Mineev Mikhail,
  • Prokoshin Fedor,
  • Rybkin Grigori,
  • Sánchez Javier,
  • Salt Cairols José,
  • Villaplana Perez Miguel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024504017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 245
p. 04017

Abstract

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The ATLAS EventIndex was designed in 2012-2013 to provide a global event catalogue and limited event-level metadata for ATLAS analysis groups and users during the LHC Run 2 (2015-2018). It provides a good and reliable service for the initial use cases (mainly event picking) and several additional ones, such as production consistency checks, duplicate event detection and measurements of the overlaps of trigger chains and derivation datasets. The LHC Run 3, starting in 2021, will see increased data-taking and simulation production rates, with which the current infrastructure would still cope but may be stretched to its limits by the end of Run 3. This proceeding describes the implementation of a new core storage service that will be able to provide at least the same functionality as the current one for increased data ingestion and search rates, and with increasing volumes of stored data. It is based on a set of HBase tables, with schemas derived from the current Oracle implementation, coupled to Apache Phoenix for data access; in this way we will add to the advantages of a BigData based storage system the possibility of SQL as well as NoSQL data access, allowing to re-use most of the existing code for metadata integration.