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Publications and source records attributed to Kevin Hendrix.
Performance of software using TCP/IP sockets to distribute events to UNIX workstations is described. This simple software was written at the University of Mississippi to control UMiss farm reconstruction of 8 billion raw events, part of Fermilab E791's data. E791 reconstructed HEP's largest data set to study charm physics.
Offline software using TCP/IP sockets to distribute particle physics events to multiple UNIX/RISC workstations is described. A modular, building block approach was taken, which allowed tailoring to solve specific tasks efficiently and simply as they arose. The modest, initial cost was having to learn about sockets for interprocess communication. This multiprocessor management software has been used to control the reconstruction of eight billion raw data events from Fermilab Experiment E791.