Title
HEP Applications Evaluation of the EDG Testbed and Middleware
Abstract
Workpackage 8 of the European Datagrid project was formed in January 2001 with representatives from the four LHC experiments, and with experiment independent people from five of the six main EDG partners. In September 2002 WP8 was strengthened by the addition of effort from BaBar and D0. The original mandate of WP8 was, following the definition of short- and long-term requirements, to port experiment software to the EDG middleware and testbed environment. A major additional activity has been testing the basic functionality and performance of this environment. This paper reviews experiences and evaluations in the areas of job submission, data management, mass storage handling, information systems and monitoring. It also comments on the problems of remote debugging, the portability of code, and scaling problems with increasing numbers of jobs, sites and nodes. Reference is made to the pioneeering work of Atlas and CMS in integrating the use of the EDG Testbed into their data challenges. A forward look is made to essential software developments within EDG and to the necessary cooperation between EDG and LCG for the LCG prototype due in mid 2003.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
cluster computing,software development,middleware,information system,data management,physics
Field
DocType
Volume
Information system,Middleware,Testbed,Software,Software portability,Data management,Operating system,Mass storage,Debugging
Journal
cs.DC/0306
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
ECONF C0303241:THCT003,2003
4
0.48
References 
Authors
6
27
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
I. Augustin171.08
F. Carminati272.77
Joel Closier3202.93
Eric Van Herwijnen4202.59
J. J. Blaising571.08
D. Boutigny671.08
C. Charlot741.16
Vincent Garonne81018.68
Andreï Tsaregorodtsev9727.03
K. Bos1091.44
Jeffrey Templon1171.08
P. Capiluppi1271.08
A. Fanfani1371.42
Roberto Barbera14276.51
Guido Negri15162.61
Laura Perini16162.61
Silvia Resconi17162.61
M. Sitta18161.49
Mario Reale19292.74
D. Vicinanza2040.48
S. Bagnasco21212.47
P. Cerello22414.44
A. Sciaba2371.08
Oxana Smirnova24617.51
David Colling25374.26
F. Harris2640.48
Stephen Burke27292.74