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ALICE is the CERN LHC experiment optimised for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma. To achieve the physics program for LHC Run 3, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Domenico Colella

ALICE is the CERN LHC experiment optimised for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma. To achieve the physics program for LHC Run 3, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-04 Domenico Colella

ALICE is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the LHC at CERN and records lead-lead collisions at a rate of up to 50 kHz in LHC Run 3. To cope with such collision and data rates, ALICE uses a new GEM TPC with continuous readout and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 David Rohr

The necessity for complex calculations in high-energy physics and large-scale data analysis has led to the development of computing grids, such as the ALICE computing grid at CERN. These grids outperform traditional supercomputers but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jananga Kalawana , Malith Dilshan , Kaveesha Dinamidu , Kalana Wijethunga , Maksim Stortvedt , Indika Perera

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the CERN LHC experiment optimized for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. To achieve the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 Domenico Colella

WorldGrid is an intercontinental testbed spanning Europe and the US integrating architecturally different Grid implementations based on the Globus toolkit. It has been developed in the context of the DataTAG and iVDGL projects, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-04-28 V. Ciaschini , F. Donno , A. Fanfani , F. Fanzago , V. Garbellotto , M. Verlato , L. Vaccarossa

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the four big CERN experiments at the LHC. The area of interest is the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma which is produced in heavy-ion collisions. The trajectories of particles created in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-04 Julian Wojciech Myrcha

Dalek is an experimental compute cluster designed to evaluate the performance of heterogeneous, consumer-grade hardware for software design, prototyping, and algorithm development. In contrast to traditional computing centers that rely on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Adrien Cassagne , Noé Amiot , Manuel Bouyer

The Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technique has gained significant traction for producing diverse content. However, existing AIGC services typically operate within a centralized framework, resulting in high response…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Changfu Xu , Jianxiong Guo , Jiandian Zeng , Houming Qiu , Tian Wang , Xiaowen Chu , Jiannong Cao

The ATLAS experiment at CERN relies on a worldwide distributed computing Grid infrastructure to support its physics program at the Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS has integrated cloud computing resources to complement its Grid infrastructure…

In the context of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), the task sharing mechanism among edge servers is an activity of vital importance for speeding up the computing process and thereby improve user experience. The distributed resources in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Angelo Vera Rivera , Ahmed Refaey , Ekram Hossain

ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC. We describe the commissioning activities in the years 2007-2009 and the status of the different subsystems at the time of this conference.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Lippmann

ALICE, the experiment dedicated to the study of heavy ion collisions at the LHC, uses an object-oriented framework for simulation, reconstruction and analysis (AliRoot) based on ROOT. Here, we describe the general ALICE simulation strategy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Carminati , A. Morsch

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The main tracking device of ALICE is a large volume TPC. The milestones of the TPC commissioning as well as the current…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Wiechula

Understanding the earth's climate system and how it might be changing is a preeminent scientific challenge. Global climate models are used to simulate past, present, and future climates, and experiments are executed continuously on an array…

We propose an AI-based assistant designed to support the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) detector operators at CERN. The assistant helps diagnose and resolve operational issues in the Detector Control System (DCS), where decisions must…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-24 Ignacy Mermer , Jakub Muszyński , Jakub Możaryn , Krystian Rosłon

Due to the increase of data volumes expected for the LHC Run 3 and Run 4, the ALICE Collaboration designed and deployed a new, energy efficient, computing model to run Online and Offline O$^2$ data processing within a single software…

Edge Computing (EC) is about remodeling the way data is handled, processed, and delivered within a vast heterogeneous network. One of the fundamental concepts of EC is to push the data processing near the edge by exploiting front-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Raby Hamadi , Abdullah Khanfor , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud

This paper examines how a "Distributed Heterogeneous Relational Data Warehouse" can be integrated in a Grid environment that will provide physicists with efficient access to large and small object collections drawn from databases at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Saima Iqbal , Julian J. Bunn , Harvey B. Newman

A new bookkeeping system called Jiskefet is being developed for A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) during Long Shutdown 2, to be in production until the end of LHC Run 4 (2029). Jiskefet unifies two functionalities: a) gathering,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Marten Teitsma , Vasco Chibante Barosso , Pascal Boeschoten , Patrick Hendriks