Use of the European Data Grid software in the framework of the BaBar distributed computing model

Abstract

We present an evaluation of the European Data Grid software in the framework of the BaBar experiment. Two kinds of applications have been considered: first, a typical data analysis on real data producing physics n-tuples, and second, a distributed Monte-Carlo production on a computational grid. Both applications will be crucial in a near future in order to make an optimal use of the distributed computing resources available throughout the collaboration.

5 pages - 1 figure - Conference CHEP 2003