ZEUS Funnel
Developed in 1992 by U Toronto students, B.Burrow et al.
- Quickly became the one ZEUS MC production system
Developed and refined in ZEUS over ~5 years
- Development work by Funnel team, ~1.5 FTE over several years
- Integration work by ZEUS Physics Groups, MC coordinator
- Deployment work at ZEUS collaborating Universities
This was a many FTE-years effort sponsored by ZEUS Universities
- Mostly “home-grown” technologies, but very fail-safe and robust
- Published in papers and on CHEP conference
- Adopted by other experiments, including L3
ZEUS could produce 106 events/week w/o dedicated CPU farms