RIKEN CCJ : Overview
Scope
- Center for the analysis of RHIC Spin Physics
- Principal site of computing for PHENIX simulation
- PHENIX CC-J is aiming at covering most of the simulation tasks of the whole PHENIX experiments
- Regional computing center in Japan
Size
- Data amount: handing 225 TB /year
- Disk Storage : 20~ TB, Tape Library: ~500 TB
- CPU performance : 13 k SPECint95 (~300 Pentium 3/4 CPU)
Schedule
- R&D for the CC-J started in April �e98 at RBRC in BNL
- Construction began in April �e99 over a three years period
- CCJ started operation in June 2000
- CCJ will reach full scale in 2002