Speaker
Andrew Maier
(CERN)
Description
The ARDA-LHCb prototype activity is focusing on the GANGA system (a joint ATLAS-LHCb
project). The main idea behind GANGA is that the physicists should have a simple
interface to their analysis programs. GANGA allows preparing the application, to
organize the submission and gather results via a clean Python API. The details
needed to submit a job on the Grid (like special configuration files) are factorised
out and applied transparently by the system. In other words, it is possible to set up
an application on a portable PC, then run some higher-statistics tests on a local
facility (like LSF at CERN) and finally analyse all the available statistics on the
Grid just changing the parameter which identifies the execution back-end.
Author
Andrew Maier
(CERN)
