Speaker
The ARDA Team
Description
The ARDA project was started in April 2004 to support
the four LHC experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb)
in the implementation of individual
production and analysis environments based on the EGEE middleware.
The main goal of the project is to allow a fast feedback between the
experiment and the middleware development teams via the
construction and the usage of end-to-end prototypes
allowing users to perform analyses out of the present
data sets from recent montecarlo productions.
In this talk the project is presented with highlights of the
first results and lessons learnt so far.
The relations of the project with similar initiatives within
and outside the High Energy Physics community are reviewed
(notably in the EGEE application identification and support).
Authors
M. Lamanna
(CERN-IT)
The ARDA Team
(CERN)
