1. Validation and performance studies for the ATLAS simulation
- Author
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Zachary Marshall and the Atlas Simulation Group
- Subjects
History ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Software development ,computer.software_genre ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Simulation software ,Software ,Software sizing ,Software construction ,Software reliability testing ,Software system ,business ,computer ,Software verification ,Simulation - Abstract
We present the validation of the ATLAS simulation software project. Software development is controlled by nightly builds and several levels of automatic tests to ensure stability. Software performance validation, including CPU time, memory, and disk space required per event, is monitored for all software releases. Several different physics processes are checked to thoroughly test all aspects of the detector simulation. The robustness of the simulation software is demonstrated by the production of 500 million events on the World-wide LHC Computing Grid in the last year.
- Published
- 2010