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The RCF was established in the 1990's to support the
computing needs of the experiments (BRAHMS, PHENIX,
PHOBOS and STAR) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider (RHIC).
The RCF is a full-service scientific computing facility,
and it provides the bulk of the dedicated computer
processing, storage and analysis resources for RHIC
computing, along with general services such as electronic
mail, web serving, file back-up services and document
processing.
In the mid 1990's, Brookhaven was selected as the U.S. Tier 1 computing facility for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC (CERN). The ATLAS Computing Facility (ACF) was established to support the computing needs of the U.S. collaborators in the ATLAS experiment, leveraging the already established infrastructure and overlapping capabilities of the RCF. The major components of the RCF/ACF are the 14 TFLOPS processing farm (currently with over 4000 processors), the distributed and centralized disk storage farm (1 PB of storage), the robotic tape storage silos (7 PB of storage) and the grid computing software infrastructure. The hardware is a combination of commodity-based processing servers, enterprise-class UNIX servers and highly-specialized mass storage systems connected together by a high-speed network infrastructure. From its establishment in the 1990's, the RCF/ACF staff has grown to its current level of 32. The combined RCF/ACF staff operates and manages year-round a heterogeneous, large-scale multi-purpose facility, serving a geographically diverse, worldwide community of about 2,400 (and growing) users, while continuously innovating and addressing ever-changing computing requirements of our user base. |
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This document last modified Wednesday October 04, 2006