Speaker
Dr
Massimo Lamanna
(CERN)
Description
The ARDA project focuses in delivering analysis prototypes together with the LHC
experiments. Each experiment prototype is in principle independent but commonalities
have been observed. The first level of commonality is represented by mature projects
which can be effectively shared across different users. The best example is GANGA,
providing a toolkit to organize users’ activity, shielding users from execution back
end details (like JDL preparation) and optionally supporting the execution of user
application derived from the experiment framework (Athena and DaVinci for ATLAS and
LHCb). The second level derives from the observation of commonality among different
usage of the Grid: efficient access to resources from individual users,
interactivity, robustness and transparent error recovery. High-level services built
on top of a baseline layer are frequently needed to fully support specific activities
like production and users’ analysis: these high-level services can be regarded as
prototypes of future generic services. The observed commonality and concrete examples
of convergence in the HEP community and outside are shown and discussed.
Author
Dr
Massimo Lamanna
(CERN)
