[Halld-offline] computing power required

[Blake Leverington]

Hi everyone,

I am attempting to simulate a week's worth of experimental runtime, 
which means a background data set and whatever signal I might come up 
with. What this works out to is 5.5x10^7 events (after copious 
filtering) that I need to run through HDGEANT and my analysis. At an 
average of 1.5 seconds to simulate and analyze each event, this works 
out to about 1000 days of CPU time. Now, since I would like to finish my 
PhD long before then, I was wondering if anyone had a spare computing 
cluster or 10 that I could use for a week or more to cut my simulations 
down to a reasonable time. Including repeats for crashes, errors, bugs, etc.

Anyone have anything available?

Cheers,
-Blake Leverington