ODBMS Decision Must Be RHIC-wide
Objectivity imposes constraints on RCF OS/hardware
- no current or foreseen support for Solaris/Pentium
- Supported on most Unix, but unacceptable $/SpecInt (30% or greater loss in CPU capacity)
- on Pentium, NT is it (except possibly Linux one day?)
- We need to look very carefully at NT
- Develop in-house CORBA client? High price in manpower and possibly performance
Scale of development effort mandates cooperation; cannot afford N approaches in terms of manpower or time
‘RHIC-wide’ means at least the major experiments, STAR and Phenix; ideally, all four
Will discuss the decision process in the event store session tomorrow, but STAR working plan is for use of Objectivity