Title :
Building and Operating a Distributed Regional Centre for LHC Computing and Data Storage
Author :
Smirnova, Oxana ; Behrmann, Gerd ; Grønager, Michael ; Johansson, Daniel ; Kleist, Josva ; Konstantinov, Aleksandr ; Kónya, Balázs ; Jensen, Henrik Thostrup
Author_Institution :
Exp. High Energy Phys., Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden
Abstract :
The paper describes the overall design and implementation of the geographically distributed computing and data storage centre as built by the Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF) with the driving goal to serve the needs of the Large Hadron Collider research at CERN. In striving to federate heterogeneous resources in different administrative domains, NDGF chose to create an infrastructure using software services offered by different providers: ARC for computing, dCache for storage, SGAS for usage accounting, and elements of gLite for interoperability with the worldwide LHC Computing Grid.
Keywords :
cache storage; grid computing; open systems; physics computing; storage management; ARC; CERN; NDGF; Nordic Data Grid Facility; SGAS; administrative domains; dCache; data storage centre; distributed regional centre; gLite; geographically distributed computing; heterogeneous resources; interoperability; large hadron collider research; software services; usage accounting; worldwide LHC computing grid; Communities; Databases; Large Hadron Collider; Middleware; Monitoring; Protocols; Grid;
Conference_Titel :
E-Science (e-Science), 2011 IEEE 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stockholm
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2163-2
DOI :
10.1109/eScience.2011.33
