
Balazs Konya
Researcher

The NorduGrid architecture and tools
Author
Summary, in English
The NorduGrid project designed a Grid architecture with the primary goal to meet the requirements of production
tasks of the LHC experiments. While it is meant to be a rather generic Grid system, it puts emphasis
on batch processing suitable for problems encountered in High Energy Physics. The NorduGrid architecture
implementation uses the Globus ToolkitTM as the foundation for various components, developed by the project.
While introducing new services, the NorduGrid does not modify the Globus tools, such that the two can eventually
co-exist. The NorduGrid topology is decentralized, avoiding a single point of failure. The NorduGrid
architecture is thus a light-weight, non-invasive and dynamic one, while robust and scalable, capable of meeting
most challenging tasks of High Energy Physics.
tasks of the LHC experiments. While it is meant to be a rather generic Grid system, it puts emphasis
on batch processing suitable for problems encountered in High Energy Physics. The NorduGrid architecture
implementation uses the Globus ToolkitTM as the foundation for various components, developed by the project.
While introducing new services, the NorduGrid does not modify the Globus tools, such that the two can eventually
co-exist. The NorduGrid topology is decentralized, avoiding a single point of failure. The NorduGrid
architecture is thus a light-weight, non-invasive and dynamic one, while robust and scalable, capable of meeting
most challenging tasks of High Energy Physics.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
Publishing year
2003
Language
English
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Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- ATLAS Computing Grid NorduGrid LHC
Conference name
Computing in High Energy Physics CHEP'03
Conference date
2003-03-24
Status
Published
Project
- ATLAS
Research group
- ATLAS