Publications relating to LHCb computing

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Computing project

Notes concerning overall project organisation and planning, including resources requests, can be found in the NCB pages

Core Software

Proceedings of IEEE NSS MIC 2015, 31 October - 7 November 2015, San Diego, California

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
	LHCb-TALK-2015-330	Graph-Based Decision Making for Task Scheduling in Concurrent Gaudi	I.Shapoval, M.Clemencic, B.Hegner, D.Funke, D.Piparo and P.Mato Vila

Proceedings of CHEP2015, 13–17 April 2015, Okinawa, Japan

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 062008	poster	LHCb Build and Deployment Infrastructure for RUNII	B.Couturier and M.Clemencic
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 062007	poster	Implementing a Domain Specific Language to configure and run LHCb Continuous Integration builds	M.Clemencic and B.Couturier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 072012	poster	Using DD4Hep through Gaudi for new experiments and LHCb	M.Clemencic and A.Karachaliou
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 062025	poster	Improvements to the User Interface for LHCb's Software continuous integration system	M.Clemencic, S.Qirjazi and B.Couturier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 092004 LHCb-PROC-2015-017	LHCb-TALK-2015-059	SIMD studies in the LHCb reconstruction software	D.Campora and B.Couturier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 022007	LHCb-TALK-2015-074	docker & HEP: containerization of applications for development, distribution and preservation	S.Binet and B.Couturier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 664 092022	slides	Performance benchmark of LHCb code on state-of-the-art x86 architectures	R.Schwemmer, N.Neufeld and D.Campora

Proceedings of CHEP2013, 14–18 October 2013, Amsterdam

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 042039	LHCb-TALK-2013-346	ARIADNE: a Tracking System for Relationships in LHCb Metadata	I.Shapoval, M.Clemencic and M.Cattaneo
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 052014	LHCb-TALK-2013-348	Measurements of the LHCb software stack on the ARM architecture	S Vijay Kartik et al.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 052020	LHCb-TALK-2013-350	Systematic profiling to monitor and specify the software refactoring process of the LHCb experiment	Ben Couturier et al.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 052004	Poster-2013-326	A GPU offloading mechanism for LHCb	Alexey Badalov et al.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 052007	Poster-2013-328	A New Nightly Build System for LHCb	M.Clemencic and B.Couturier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 052029	Poster-2013-332	Preparing the Gaudi-Framework and the DIRAC-WMS for Multicore Job Submission	N Rauschmayr and A Streit

Proceedings of SYNASC 2013- 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, 23-26 Sept 2013:

Slides	Title	Author(s)
LHCb-TALK-2013-328	Evaluating moldability of LHCb jobs for multicore job submission	N.Rauschmayr

Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on Computational Science Barcelona, Spain, 5 - 7 Jun 2013

Reference	Title	Author(s)
Procedia Computer Science: Volume 18, 2013, Pages 2233–2240 LHCb-PROC-2013-033	Evaluation of x32-ABI in the Context of LHC Applications	N.Rauschmayr, A.Streit

Proceedings of IEEE NSS MIC 2012

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)	Date
LHCb-PROC-2012-058	POSTER-2012-244	LHCb Software and Conditions Database Cross-Compatibility Tracking: a Graph-Theory Approach	M.Cattaneo, M.Clemencic, I.Shapoval	October 2012

Proceedings of CHEP2012, 21–25 May 2012, New York, USA

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 052021	CHEP2012 Indico site	A CMake-based build and configuration framework	M.Clemencic, P.Mato
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 052054	CHEP2012 Indico site	Advanced Modular Software Performance Monitoring	B.Couturier, A.Mazurov
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 052022	POSTER-2012-225	LHCb Conditions Database Operation Assistance Systems	M.Clemencic, I.Shapoval, M.Cattaneo, H.Degaudenzi, and R.Santinelli

Proceedings of CHEP2010, 18–22 October 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 042043 CERN-IT-2011-008		LCG Persistency Framework (CORAL, COOL, POOL): Status and Outlook	A.Valassi, M.Clemencic, D.Dykstra, M.Frank, D.Front, G.Govi, A.Kalkhof, A.Loth, M.Nowak, W.Pokorski, A.Salnikov, S.A.Schmidt, R.Trentadue, M.Wache and Z.Xie
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 042014 LHCb-PROC-2010-070	LHCb-TALK-2010-156	Modular Software Performance Monitoring	D.F.Kruse and K.Kruzelecki.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 042006	LHCb-TALK-2010-158	Migration of the Gaudi and LHCb software repositories from CVS to Subversion	M.Clemencic and H.Degaudenzi
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 042009 LHCb-PROC-2011-015	Poster-2010-157	LHCb Tag Collector	P.Fuente Fernández, M.Clemencic and N.Cousin

Proceedings of CHEP2009, 21–27 March 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 042042		The nightly build and test system for LCG AA and LHCb software	K.Kruzelecki, S.Roiser and H.Degaudenzi
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 042006		Recent developments in the LHCb software framework Gaudi	M.Clemencic, H.Degaudenzi, P.Mato, S.Binet, W.Lavrijsen, C.Leggett and I.Belyaev

Distributed Computing

Proceedings of CHEP2015, 13–17 April 2015, Okinawa, Japan

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 062039	CERN-POSTER-2015-486	The DIRAC Web Portal 2.0	Z.Mathe, A.Casajus Ramo, N.Lazovsky, F.Stagni
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 042025	Paper is merge of one poster and two talks	The DIRAC Data Management System and the Gaudi dataset federation	C.Haen, P.Charpentier, M.Frank and A.Tsaregorodtsev
	CERN-POSTER-2015-487	Data Management System of the DIRAC Project	CH, PC, AT
	LHCb-TALK-2015-061	The DIRAC Data Management System (lightning talk)	CH, PC
	LHCb-TALK-2015-062	Federating LHCb datasets using the Dirac File Catalog	CH, PC, MF, AT
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 042036	LHCb-TALK-2015-060	Evaluation of NoSQL databases for DIRAC monitoring and beyond	F.Stagni, Z.Mathe, A.Casajus Ramo, L.Tomassetti
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 022030	LHCb-TALK-2015-063	LHCb experience with running jobs in virtual machines	A.McNab, F.Stagni and C.Luzzi
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 062060 LHCb-PROC-2015-015	LHCb-TALK-2015-075	Jobs masonry with elastic Grid Jobs	F.Stagni and P.Charpentier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 062061 LHCb-PROC-2015-014	LHCb-TALK-2015-076	Pilots 2.0: DIRAC pilots for all the skies	F.Stagni, A.Tsaregorodtsev, A.McNab and C.Luzzi
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 072014 LHCb-PROC-2015-016	LHCb-TALK-2015-077	How the Monte Carlo production of a wide variety of different samples if centrally handled in the LHCb experiment	G.Corti et al.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 062050	slides	A history-based estimation for LHCb job requirements	N.Rauschmayr.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 042026	slides	Disk storage management for LHCb based on Data Popularity estimator	M.Hushchyn, P.Charpentier and A.Ustyuzhanin

Proceedings of CHEP2013, 14–18 April 2012, Amsterdam

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 032099	LHCb-TALK-2013-344	Integration of Cloud resources in the LHCb Distributed Computing	M.Ubeda Garcia et al.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 032017	LHCb-TALK-2013-349	Recent and planned changes to the LHCb computing model	M.Cattaneo et al
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 042032	Poster-2013-330	Optimising query execution time in LHCb Bookkeeping System using partition pruning and partition wise joins	Z.Mathe and P.Charpentier
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 032093	Poster-2013-333	Self managing experiment resources	F Stagni et al.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 032096		DIRAC Distributed Computing Services	A.Tsaregorodtsev

Proceedings of IEEE NSS MIC 2012

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)	Date
	LHCb-TALK-2012-304	How the Monte Carlo production of a wide variety of different samples is centrally handled in the LHCb experiment	G.Corti	October 2012

Proceedings of CHEP2012, 21–25 May 2012, New York, USA

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032023	CHEP2012 Indico site	The LHCb Data Management System	J.P.Baud, P.Charpentier*, K.Ciba, R.Graciani, E.Lanciotti, Z.Màthè, D.Remenska and R.Santana
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032052	CHEP2012 Indico site	Offline Processing in the Online Computer Farm	L.G.Cardoso, C.Gaspar, O.Callot, J.Closier, N.Neufeld, M.Frank, B.Jost, P.Charpentier, G.Liu
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032092	POSTER-2012-224	Major Changes to the LHCb Grid Computing Model in Year 2 of LHC Data	L.Arrabito, V.Bernardoff, D.Bouvet, M.Cattaneo, P.Charpentier, P.Clarke, J.Closier, P.Franchini, R.Graciani, E.Lanciotti, V.Mendez, S.Perazzini, R.Nandkumar, D.Remenska, S.Roiser, V.Romanovskiy, R.Santinelli, F.Stagni, A.Tsaregorodtsev, M.Ubeda Garcia, A.Vedaee and A.Zhelezov
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 052061	POSTER-2012-222	Analysis of DIRAC's behavior using model checking with process algebra	D.Remenska, J.Templon, T.Willemse, H.Bal, K.Verstoep, W.Fokkink, P.Charpentier, R.Graciani Diaz, E.Lanciotti, S.Roiser and K.Ciba
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032104	POSTER-2012-223	LHCbDirac: distributed computing in LHCb	F.Stagni, P.Charpentier, R.Graciani, A.Tsaregorodtsev, J.Closier, Z.Mathe, M.Ubeda, A.Zhelezov, E.Lanciotti, V.Romanovskiy, K.D.Ciba, A.Casajus, S.Roiser, M.Sapunov, D.Remenska, V.Bernardoff, R.Santana and R.Nandakumar
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032110	POSTER-2012-227	Grid administration, towards an autonomic approach	M.Ubeda Garcia, F.Stagni, A.Tsaregorodtsev, P.Charpentier and V.Bernardoff

Proceedings of ACAT 2011

Authors(s)	Reference	Title
F Stagni et al 2012	J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 368 012009	LHCb distributed computing operations
F Stagni et al 2012	J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 368 012010	The LHCb DIRAC-based production and data management operations systems

Proceedings of CHEP2010, 18–22 October 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 072060		Optimization of Large Scale HEP Data Analysis in LHCb	D.Remenska, R.Aaij, G.Raven, M.Merk, J.Templon and R.J.Bril
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 072011 ATL-SOFT-PROC-2011-011	ATL-SOFT-SLIDE-2010-363	Reinforcing user data analysis with Ganga in the LHC era: scalability, monitoring and user-support	J.Elmsheuser, F.Brochu, I.Dzhunov, J.Ebke, U.Egede, M.Kumar Jha, L.Kokoszkiewicz, H.-C.Lee, A.Maier, J.Mościcki, T.München, W.Reece, B.Samset, M.Slater, D.Tuckett, D.Vanderster and M.Williams
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 072067	Poster-2010-156	A policy system for Grid Management and Monitoring	F.Stagni and R.Santinelli
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 072037 LHCb-PROC-2010-067	LHCb-TALK-2010-155	Distributed analysis at LHCb	M.Williams, U.Egede and S.Paterson
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 072008	LHCb-TALK-2010-149	The LHCb Computing Model and Real Data	P.Charpentier.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 072059 LHCb-PROC-2011-026	Poster-2010-158	The LHCb Experience on the Grid from the DIRAC Accounting Data	A.Casajús, R.Graciani, A.Puig and R.Vázquez
	LHCb-TALK-2010-152	LHCb DIRAC Data Production System	A.C.Smith et al.

Proceedings of CHEP2009, 21–27 March 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 062029		DIRAC3 – the new generation of the LHCb grid software	A.Tsaregorodtsev, N.Brook, A.Casajus Ramo, P.Charpentier, J.Closier, G.Cowan, R.Graciani Diaz, E.Lanciotti, Z.Mathe, R.Nandakumar, S.Paterson, V.Romanovsky, R.Santinelli, M.Sapunov, A.C.Smith, M.Seco Miguelez and A.Zhelezov
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 062061		Monitoring the DIRAC distributed system	R.Santinelli, M.Seco and R.Nandakumar
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 042033		DIRAC distributed secure framework	A.Casajus and R.Graciani
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 022020		Event reconstruction in the LHCb Online cluster	A.Puig Navarro and M.Frank
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 022020		DIRAC pilot framework and the DIRAC Workload Management System	A.Casajus, R.Graciani, S.Paterson and A.Tsaregorodtsev

Physics Software

• Presentations and proceedings relating to LHCb simulation are listed here
• Talks relating to the LHCb High Level Trigger are listed here

Proceedings of CHEP2015, 13–17 April 2015, Okinawa, Japan

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 072047 LHCb-PROC-2015-012	LHCb-TALK-2015-090	Optimization of the LHCb track reconstruction	B.Storaci and M.De Cian
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 032019	poster	Event Index — an LHCb Event Search System	A.Ustyuzhanin, A.Artemov, N.Kazeev and A.Redkin
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 082010 LHCb-PROC-2015-011	CERN-POSTER-2015-488	Real-time alignment and calibration of the LHCb Detector in Run II	G.Dujany and B.Storaci
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 082011	LHCb-TALK-2015-064	The LHCb Data Acquisition and High Level Trigger Processing Architecture	M.Frank, C.Gaspar, B.Jost, N.Neufeld

Proceedings of CHEP2012, 21–25 May 2012, New York, USA

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 022016	CHEP2012 Indico site	Swimming, a data driven acceptance correction algorithm	V.V.Gligorov, R.Aaij, M.Cattaneo, M.Clemencic, M.Gersabeck, A.Falabella, E.Van Herwijnen, N.Torr, G.Raven and F.Stagni

Proceedings of CHEP2010, 18–22 October 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

Reference	Slides	Title	Author(s)
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 032028 LHCb-PROC-2011-022	LHCb-TALK-2010-153	A Novel Approach to Detector Calibration Parameter Determination and Detector Monitoring	E.Rodrigues.
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 032050 LHCb-PROC-2011-027	Poster-2010-159	Kali: The framework for fine calibration of the LHCb Electromagnetic Calorimeter	I.Belyaev, D.Savrina, R.Graciani and A.Puig

Theses

• Adaptive Scheduling Applied to Non-Deterministic Networks of Heterogeneous Tasks for Peak Throughput in Concurrent Gaudi, Illya Shapoval, CERN-THESIS-2016-028
• Bringing Model Checking Closer to Practical Software Engineering, Daniela Remenska, CERN-THESIS-2010-324
• Optimisation of LHCb Applications for Multi- and Manycore Job Submission, Nathalie Raushmayr, CERN-THESIS-2014-242
• Feicim: A browser and analysis tool for distributed data in particle physics, Zoltan Mathe, CERN-THESIS-2012-156

Detector papers

• Tesla : an application for real-time data analysis in High Energy Physics, Aaij, R et al., CERN-LHCB-DP-2016-001

Old stuff

A very old list of publications can be found here

-- MarcoCattaneo - 8-Jan-2016