PHENIX CC-J : Overview
PHENIX Regional Computing Center in Japan (CC-J) at RIKEN wako
Scope
- 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 Asian computing center
- Center for the analysis of RHIC spin physics
Architecture
- Essentially follow the architecture of RHIC Computing Facility (RCF) at BNL
Construction
- R&D for the CC-J started in April �e98 at RBRC
- Construction began in April �e99 over a three years period
- 1/3 scale of of the CC-J started operation in June 2000