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P. Mastroserio

Publications and source records attributed to P. Mastroserio.

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arXiv2003

Real-time Control System Prototype for Mechanical and Optical Systems based on Parallel Computing Techniques

Real-time control systems often require dedicated hardware and software, including real-time operating systems, while many systems are available for off-line computing, mainly based on standard system units (PCs), standard network connections (Ethernet), standard operating systems (Linux) and software independent from the particular architecture of the single unit. In order to try to get the advantages of both the technologies, we built an hybrid control system prototype using network based parallel computing architecture within real-time control system. In this paper we describe the architecture of the implemented system, the preliminary tests we performed for its characterization and the architecture of the control system we used for the real-time control tests.

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arXiv2003

A GRID solution for Gravitational Waves Signal Analysis from Coalescing Binaries: preliminary algorithms and tests

The analysis of data coming from interferometric antennas for gravitational waves detection may require a huge amount of computing power. The usual approach to the detection strategy is to set-up computer farms able to perform several tasks in parallel, exchanging data through network links. In this paper a new computation strategy is presented. This strategy is based on the GRID environment that allows several geographically distributed computing resources to exchange data and programs in secure way, using standard infrastructures. The computing resources can be geographically distributed also on a large scale. Some preliminary tests were performed using a subnetwork of the GRID infrastructure, producing good results in terms of distribution efficiency and time duration.

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arXiv2003

Standard FTP and GridFTP protocols for international data transfer in Pamela Satellite Space Experiment

Physics applications often involve large amounts of data and/or computing and often require secure resource sharing across organizational boundaries, and are thus not easily handled by today's Internet and Web infrastructures. Pamela (a Payload Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics), is a permanent magnet core facility with a variety of specialized detectors. It allows the investigation of the cosmic radiation: origin and evolution of matter in the galaxy, search for antimatter and dark matter of cosmological significance, understanding of origin and acceleration of relativistic particles in the galaxy. Pamela will be put in an elliptical orbit at an altitude between 300 and 600 Km, on board of the Resurs DK1 Russian satellite in the fall of the year 2003. The Napoli INFN Computing Center and the Pamela Teams of the Universities of Rome, Trieste and Stockholm have performed several network tests in order to make a comparison between Standard FTP and GridFTP protocols.

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arXiv2003

OpenMosix approach to build scalable HPC farms with an easy management infrastructure

The OpenMosix approach is a good solution to build powerful and scalable computing farms. Furthermore an easy management infrastructure is implemented using diskless nodes and network boot procedures. In HENP environment, the choice of OpenMosix has been proven to be an optimal solution to give a general performance boost on implemented systems thanks to its load balancing and process migration features. In this poster we give an overview of the activities, carried out by our computing center, concerning the installation, management, monitoring, and usage of HPC Linux clusters running OpenMosix.

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arXiv2003

Evaluating current processors performance and machines stability

Accurately estimate performance of currently available processors is becoming a key activity, particularly in HENP environment, where high computing power is crucial. This document describes the methods and programs, opensource or freeware, used to benchmark processors, memory and disk subsystems and network connection architectures. These tools are also useful to stress test new machines, before their acquisition or before their introduction in a production environment, where high uptimes are requested.

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arXiv2003

Web portals, instant messaging and web communities: new tools for online collaboration

Web portals are nowadays very popular. This type of web sites let users to share information, request advice or help in a particular field, and furthermore allow them to create and extend sites content. Combined with instant messaging systems, used to send messages or files instantaneously to a user or a group of users, and with various kinds of chat programs, which connect two or more individuals simulating a conversation, it is now possible to create "web communities". In this paper we present the opensource tools used to create the "Grid Support Community" of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy.

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