Regional Centres
Cannot do everything at SLAC
- Even with all the measures to improve analysis efficiency at SLAC, it cannot support entire collaboration.
- Network connection from UK is slow, sometimes very slow, occasionally unreliable.
Therefore need to allow analysis outside SLAC.
- “Regional Centres” in UK, France, and Italy.
- RAL is the UK Regional Centre.
Major challenge to transfer data from SLAC, and to reproduce databases and analysis environment at RAL.