Speaker
P. Love
(Lancaster University)
Description
Building on several years of sucess with the MCRunjob projects at
DZero and CMS, the fermilab sponsored joint Runjob project aims to
provide a Workflow description language common to three experiments:
DZero, CMS and CDF. This project will encapsulate the remote
processing experiences of the three experiments in an extensible
software architecture using web services as a
communication medium. The core of the Runjob project will be the
Shahkar software packages that provide services for describing jobs
and targeting them at different execution environments. A common
interface to multiple storage and compute grid elements will be
provided, alllowing the three experiments to share hardware resources
in a transparent manner. Several tools provided by Shahkar are
discussed including FileMetaBrokers, hich provide a
uniform way to handle files and metadata over a distributed cluster,
the ShREEK runtime execution environment that allows executable jobs
to provide a real time monitoring and control interface to any
system, the scriptObject generic task encapsulation objects and
XMLProcessor object persistency tool.
Primary authors
D. Evans
(Computing Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
G. Graham
(Computing Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
I. Bertram
(Lancaster University)
P. Love
(Lancaster University)
