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Report on the experience (or the proposed activity). It would be very important to mention key services which are essential for the success of your activity on the EGEE infrastructure.
Experiment Dashboard is currently in production and is used by
LHC users with
different roles for their everyday work.
With a forward look to future evolution, discuss the issues you have encountered (or that you expect) in using the EGEE infrastructure. Wherever possible, point out the experience limitations (both in terms of existing services or missing functionality)
The whole EGEE monitoring infrastructure can be considerably
improved. Very often the
error messages indicating various failures are not clear and do
not point to a real
problem. The variety of the local fabrics monitoring systems used
by local sites
complicates the task of creation of the common framework for
aggregation of the
monitoring data in the central repository. Transparent navigation
of the monitoring
data provided by different monitoring systems is often not possible.
Describe the added value of the Grid for the scientific/technical activity you (plan to) do on the Grid. This should include the scale of the activity and of the potential user community and the relevance for other scientific or business applications
Existing monitoring tools are usually focusing onto a specific
usage like specific
Grid middleware/infrastructures, specific submission tool, etc.
The Experiment
Dashboard has been built to aggregate the existing monitor
infrastructure (from
experiment specific software, infrastructure itself, monitoring
tools) and provide
unified views and information correlation. Experiment Dashboard
is covering different
areas of the LHC activities - job processing, data transfer, data
publishing. It is
deployed for four LHC experiments (CMS, ATLAS, LHCb, ALICE). Some
of the core
functionality of the Experiment Dashboard like job monitoring can
be used for other
virtual organizations.
Describe the scientific/technical community and the scientific/technical activity using (planning to use) the EGEE infrastructure. A high-level description is needed (neither a detailed specialist report nor a list of references).
LHC experiments are depending on the distributed EGEE
infrastructure for their core
activities. The Experiment Dashboard is a monitoring framework
aiming to provide for
the LHC experiments the overview of their activities on the EGEE
infrastructure with
a special emphasis in support for users community.
