BaBar’s Need for the Grid
What Happened?
- PEP II/BaBar has reached design (integrated) luminosity (131 TB in database by end June 2000)
- We all believe the plans to increase luminosity by a factor 8 by 2003
- BaBar data will grow faster than “Moore’s Law”
Options:
- Pour French, British, Italian money into the SLAC Computer Center
- Make the Grid work
While simultaneously improving storage management