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{} 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0306002,
title = {The NorduGrid architecture and tools},
author = {P. Eerola and T. Ekelof and M. Ellert and J. R. Hansen and A. Konstantinov and B. Konya and J. L. Nielsen and F. Ould-Saada and O. Smirnova and A. Waananen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0306002},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 9 pages,LaTeX, 4 figures. PSN MOAT003