Using the NA62 DAQ farm for offline processing by exploiting its computational power

During the long shutdown 2 (Known as LS2) in CERN that take place from 2018 to 2020. Many experiments including the NA62 experiment enter the shutdown status where experiments undergone development, maintenance and upgrades. During that time, many computational resources are not being exploited and just being idle. The NA62 experiment is a fixed target experiment that investigate the rare Kaon decay. It is good to know that this experiment is also known by the name Kaon factory. The collaboration has its own PC Farm for the DAQ system (Data acquisition system). It consists of thirty servers and three mergers. The aim of the thirty servers is to process the raw data generated from the collisions and process them in software level. After that, the data is being received by the mergers which send them to the permanent storage in CERN. Since this experiment and many others are included the LS2. Although there are some tests being conducted from time to time but most of the time their computational power remains unexploited. In this project we aimed to exploit the computational power of the PC farm or any unused infrastructure by deploying and configuring HTCondor in a way that it will be isolated from the environment and generic. Hence, minimal changes to these infrastructures will be done and it can be rapidly deployed anywhere.