FUNNEL: TOWARDS COMFORTABLE EVENT PROCESSING
Burkhard D. Burow · 1996
PVM for parallel processing. Whether on a dedicated farm of computers or using idle cycles, an application of any size could then easily enjoy the comfort of automated, fault-tolerant event processing. EVPRO aims to minimize application-specific event processing software, whose high development costs can only be justified for the largest of applications. A casual user may provide EVPRO with only the processing program and the data to be processed. A more complex or realtime application would tune EVPRO to its needs; for example, integrating custom hardware for the flow of event data. Making optimal use of the available computing resources, EVPRO would manage all aspects of the event processing. Monte Carlo production, event reconstruction and software triggers could use EVPRO, as could any computing application, inside or outside of HEP, which can be expressed in terms of events. In principle, event processing is a solved or even a trivial problem. Given an implementor, EVPR