Speaker
F. Rademakers
(CERN)
Description
The ALICE experiment and the ROOT team have developed a Grid-enabled version of PROOF that allows
efficient parallel processing of large and distributed data samples. This system has been integrated with the
ALICE-developed AliEn middleware. Parallelism is implemented at the level of each local cluster for efficient
processing and at the Grid level, for optimal workload management of distributed resources. This system
allows harnessing large Computing on Demand capacity during an interactive session. Remote parallel
computations are spawned close to the data, minimising network traffic. If several copies of the data are
available, a workload management system decides automatically where to send the task. Results are
automatically merged and displayed at the user workstation. The talk will describe the different components
of the system (PROOF, the parallel ROOT engine, and the AliEn middleware), the present status and future
plans for the development and deployment and the consequences for the ALICE computing model.
Primary authors
A. Peters
(CERN)
F. Carminati
(CERN)
F. Rademakers
(CERN)
M. Ballintijn
(MIT)
P. BUNCIC
(CERN)
P. Canal
(FNAL)
R. Brun
(CERN)
