| dc.description.abstract | The LHCb detector is one of the four experiments being built to harness
the proton-proton collisions provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). The data rate
expected, when the LHC experiments are fully operational, eclipses that of
any previous scientific experiments and has motivated the adoption of a grid
computing paradigm to store and process the data. Managing PetaBytes of
data in a distributed environment provides a rich set of challenges related
to scalability, reliability and performance. This thesis will present the data
management requirements for executing the workload of the LHCb collab-
oration. We present the systems designed that support all aspects of the
grid data management for LHCb, from data transfer, to data integrity, and
efficient data access. The distributed computing environment is inherently
unstable and much focus has been made on providing systems that are ro-
bust and resilient to observed failures. | en |
