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In this paper we present the experience of the ATLAS and CMS High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the LCG/EGEE Grid infrastructure. The activity developed around the following two main lines: large-scale physics and detector simulations and end-user analysis. The LCG/EGEE Grid infrastructure offers a large amount of computing and storage resources and is growing very rapidly. It provides the natural environment for large-scale physics and detector simulations. Also, the analysis of these detector simulation data (and in the near future of the reconstructed data from physics collisions) requires efficient end-users access to Grid resources. In this paper, the main findings and lessons learned in terms of performance, robustness and scalability of the whole system are discussed in detail.
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Andreeva, J., Campana, S., Fanzago, F. et al. High-Energy Physics on the Grid: the ATLAS and CMS Experience. J Grid Computing 6, 3–13 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-007-9087-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-007-9087-3