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The SuperB asymmetric energy e+e- collider and detector [1] to be built at the newly founded Nicola Cabibbo Lab [2] will provide a uniquely sensitive probe of New Physics in the flavor sector of the Standard Model. Studying minute effects in the heavy quark and heavy lepton sectors requires a data sample of 75 ab-1 and a peak luminosity of 1036 cm-2s-1. These parameters require a substantial growth in computing requirements and performances: we roughly estimate that in few years of operations we will have to cope with near half EB of raw data and that the CPU required for processing will be close to 6000 KHep-Spec06 per year. The SuperB collaboration is thus investigating the advantages of new CPU architectures (multi and many cores, now largely available on the market), with the aim to be able to treat this amount of data both efficiently and within reasonable amounts of time. At the same time the collaboration is analyzing the current software, in large part inherited from previous experiments (mainly BaBar), to understand the underlying parallelism level, how to exploit it and to find the better mapping to emergent hardware architectures. In this work we first present the measurements done on the analysis and simulation software, then the Framework architecture we are designing. We complete the presentation with a description of our Framework prototype and some preliminary performance measurements.

The SuperB asymmetric e+e- collider and detector to be built at the newly founded Nicola Cabibbo Lab will provide a uniquely sensitive probe of New Physics in the flavor sector of the Standard Model. Studying minute effects in the heavy quark and heavy lepton sectors requires a data sample of 75ab-1 and a peak luminosity of 1036cm-2s-1. Providing a user-friendly solution to workload management in a distributed resource system is one of the key goal of a HEP community as SuperB experiment. Physicists involved in Monte Carlo simulation productions and in data analysis should be able to perform job management and basic data transfer operations limiting as possible training costs and maximizing flexibility in resource exploitation. The SuperB computing group adopted Ganga as the interface layer of such distributed analysis infrastructure. A SuperB-specific Ganga-plugin has been developed to accomplish experiment requirements as information system interface, use cases implementation, dataset management and job wrapper interactions. This work will present the Ganga plugin design and implementation, and its integration with the wider distributed system adopted by the collaboration.

The SuperB asymmetric-energy e+e collider and detector to be built at the newly founded Nicola Cabibbo Lab will provide a uniquely sensitive probe of New Physics in the flavour sector of the Standard Model. Studying minute effects in the heavy quark and heavy lepton sectors requires a data sample of 75ab^-1 and a luminosity target of 10^36 cm^-2 s^-1. These parameters require a substantial growth in computing requirements and performances. The SuperB collaboration is thus investigating the advantages of new CPU architectures (multi and many cores) and how to exploit their capability of task parallelization in the framework for simulation and analysis software. In this work we present the underlying architecture which we intend to use and some preliminary performance results of the first framework prototype.

The SuperB asymmetric e+e- collider and detector to be built at the newly founded Nicola Cabibbo Lab will provide a uniquely sensitive probe of New Physics in the flavor sector of the Standard Model. Studying minute effects in the heavy quark and heavy lepton sectors requires a data sample of 75 ab-1 and a peak luminosity of 1036 cm-2 s-1. The SuperB Computing group is working on developing a production system for distributed event simulation capable to support the detector design definition and its performance evaluation studies. During last year the system has evolved from the point of view of job workflow, Grid services, and technologies adoption. A complete code refactoring and sub-component language porting now allows to sustain large distributed production cycles involving resources from three continents and Grid Flavors. In this paper we present a complete description of the production system, its evolution and its integration with Grid services; in particular, we will focus on the utilization of new Grid component features as in LB and WMS version 3.

The SuperB asymmetric energy e(+)e(-) collider and detector to be built at the newly founded Nicola Cabibbo Lab will provide a uniquely sensitive probe of New Physics in the flavor sector of the Standard Model. Studying minute effects in the heavy quark and heavy lepton sectors requires a data sample of 75 ab(-1) and a luminosity target of 10(36) cm(-2) s(-1). This luminosity translate in the requirement of storing more than 50 PByte of additional data each year, making SuperB an interesting challenge to the data management infrastructure, both at site level as at Wide Area Network level. A new Tier1, distributed among 3 or 4 sites in the south of Italy, is planned as part of the SuperB computing infrastructure. Data storage is a relevant topic whose development affects the way to configure and setup storage infrastructure both in local computing cluster and in a distributed paradigm. In this work we report the test on the software for data distribution and data replica focusing on the experiences made with Hadoop and GlusterFS.