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

TL;DR

This paper introduces a GRID-based computational strategy for gravitational wave signal analysis from coalescing binaries, enabling distributed processing across geographically dispersed resources to improve efficiency and scalability.

Contribution

It presents a novel GRID computing approach for gravitational wave data analysis, demonstrating preliminary tests with promising results in distribution efficiency and processing time.

Findings

Good distribution efficiency achieved

Reduced processing time in preliminary tests

Effective use of geographically distributed resources

Abstract

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.