5.6 Testing and Commissioning of the System

Computing Technical Design Report

5.6 Testing and Commissioning of the System

By the end of 2005 we must have a working production and analysis system that can scale to the needs of the ATLAS user community in 2007. This system will be used for the Computing System Commissioning activities that are planned to start in early 2006 (see Section 8.2.2 ). In order to be ready in time, we have established a list of high-level milestones for the development of the production and analysis systems and related activities:

Mid-July 2005: decision on the future developments of the distributed analysis
system.
End July 2005: major re-work of the components of the production system.
End July 2005: report on the first tests of gLite middleware components.
End September 2005: new version of the production system fully tested and deployed.
Mid-October 2005: start of productions of simulated events matching the cosmic-ray
data collected by the ATLAS detector.
Mid-November 2005: start of large-scale productions to generate simulated events for
Computing System Commissioning in early 2006.

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