Immediate remarks

7 Million files !!!?? Real Data Management problem - Resilient ROOT IO - Cannot proliferate more “kind” of files - Good luck with private formats … - Catalog better be scalable (and efficient) - Find a needle in a hay stack …
Processing time and data sample very large - Need to off load user analysis (running where we can). Data production is not ready for multi-site … - Code consolidation is necessary (yet another reason for cleaning) - MuDst transfer alone from BNL to PDSF (at 3 MB/sec) would take 145 days …

7 Million files !!!?? Real Data Management problem - Resilient ROOT IO - Cannot proliferate more “kind” of files - Good luck with private formats … - Catalog better be scalable (and efficient) - Find a needle in a hay stack …