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May 8 – 12, 2023
Norfolk Waterside Marriott
US/Eastern timezone

The ALICE Experiment Control System in LHC Run 3

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1h
Hampton Roads Ballroom and Foyer Area (Norfolk Waterside Marriott)

Hampton Roads Ballroom and Foyer Area

Norfolk Waterside Marriott

235 East Main Street Norfolk, VA 23510
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Mrnjavac, Teo (CERN)

Description

The ALICE Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has undergone a major upgrade during LHC Long Shutdown 2 in 2019-2021, which includes a new computing system called O² (Online-Offline). To ensure the efficient operation of the upgraded experiment and of its newly designed computing system, a reliable, high performance, full-featured experiment control system has also been developed and deployed at LHC Point 2.

The ALICE Experiment Control System (AliECS) is a microservices-oriented system based on state-of-the-art cluster management technologies that have recently emerged in the distributed and high-performance computing ecosystem. It is designed, developed and maintained as a comprehensive solution and single entry point for control of experiment data acquisition (up to 3.5 TB/s) and processing.

This communication describes the AliECS architecture. It provides an in-depth overview of the system's components, interfaces, features, and design elements, as well as its performance. It also reports on the experience with AliECS during the first year of ALICE Run 3 data taking with LHC beam, including integration and operational challenges, and presents some lessons learned from real-world use.

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