Speaker
Dr
David Alexander
(Tech-X Corporation)
Description
Nuclear and high-energy physicists routinely execute data processing and data
analysis jobs on a Grid and need to be able to monitor their jobs execution at an
arbitrary site at any time. Existing Grid monitoring tools provide abundant
information about the whole system, but are geared towards production jobs and well
suited for Grid administrators, while the information tailored towards an individual
user is not readily available in a user-friendly and user-centric way. Such User
Centric information includes monitoring information such as the status of the
submitted job, queue position, time of the start/finish, percentage of being done,
error messages, standard output, and reasons for failure.
We proposed to develop a framework centered on Grid service technology that allows
scientists to track and monitor their jobs easily from a user-centric view. The
proposed framework aims to be flexible so that it can be applied by any Grid Virtual
Organization (VO) with various ways of collecting the user-centric job monitoring
information built into the framework. Furthermore, the framework provides a rich and
reusable set of methods of presenting the information to the user from within a Web
browser and other clients.
In this presentation, we will give an architectural overview of the UCM service, show
an example implementation in the RHIC/STAR experiment context and discuss limitations
and future collaborative work.
| Submitted on behalf of Collaboration (ex, BaBar, ATLAS) | STAR |
|---|
Authors
Dr
David Alexander
(Tech-X Corporation)
Dr
Jerome LAURET
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
Co-authors
Dr
CHUANG LI
(Tech-X Corporation)
Dr
Valeri FINE
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
