Global Lambdas for Particle Physics Analysis
URL: ultralight.caltech.edu/web-site/igrid Contact: Julian Bunn, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA, Julian.Bunn @ caltech.edu Collaborators: Caltech, USA: Julian Bunn, Harvey Newman, Conrad Steenberg, Rick Wilkinson, Suresh Singh, Xun Su, Michael Thomas, Yang Xia, Iosif LeGrand, Saima Iqbal, Frank Van Lingen, Dan Nae Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), USA: Les Cottrell, Richard Mount Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), USA: Don Petravick University of Florida, USA: Richard Cavanaugh University of Michigan, USA: Shawn McKee CERN: David Foster Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea: Yusung Kim Kyungpook National University, Korea: Kwon Kihwon Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Alberto Santoro, Moacyr Souza, Andre Sznajder, Jose Afonso, Eduardo Revoredo University of Manchester, UK: Richard Hughes-Jones GLORIAD, USA: Greg Cole, Natasha Bulashova Cisco Systems, Inc., USA: Doug Walsten Caltech, SLAC and FNAL use advanced networks to demonstrate analysis tools that will enable physicists to control worldwide grid resources when analyzing major high-energy physics events. Components of this “Grid Analysis Environment” are being developed by such projects as UltraLight, FAST, PPDG, GriPhyN and iVDGL. The iGrid demonstration shows how a physicist can issue on-demand network and resource provisioning in response to event analysis requests from his desktop computer. A request’s complex workflows are translated using provisioning algorithms into network flow allocations and scheduled resource bookings on remote computers / clusters. Caltech’s MonALISA monitoring framework illustrates the progress of the analysis tasks, data flows in the network, and the effects on the global system. |