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0 pointsccooffee3y ago0 comments

I found this webpage[0] (and those it links to) to be a good bit of context on what this all means. (And then ran off to do a bunch more searching!)

tl;dr: CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) is one of two major detectors of the Large Hadron collider. Fermilab was intimately involved in designing CMS. Fermilab is also a "tier 1" computation center for processing LHC data (possibly restricted to CMS data?). Per this factsheet[1], there is one other "tier 1" compute farm in the US, though it isn't named in particular. I'd guess Lawrence Livermore, but I have nothing more than a hunch.

[0] https://cms.fnal.gov/

[1] https://www.fnal.gov/gridfest/pdfs/uscomputing_factsheet.pdf

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tobias20143y ago

Brookhaven National Laboratory is tier 1 for ATLAS: https://www.bnl.gov/atlas/computing.php (also mentioned in your linked PDF)

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0 pointsccooffee3y ago0 comments

I found this webpage[0] (and those it links to) to be a good bit of context on what this all means. (And then ran off to do a bunch more searching!)

[0] https://cms.fnal.gov/

[1] https://www.fnal.gov/gridfest/pdfs/uscomputing_factsheet.pdf