The Grid2003 Production Grid: Principles and Practice

I. Foster, J. Gieraltowski, S. Gose, N. Maltsev, E. May, A. Rodriguez, D. Sulakhe, A. Vaniachine, J. Shank, S. Youssef, D. Adams, R. Baker, W. Deng, J. Smith, D. Yu, I. Legrand, S. Singh, C. Steenberg, Y. Xia, A. AfaqE. Berman, J. Annis, L. A.T. Bauerdick, M. Ernst, I. Fisk, L. Giacchetti, G. Graham, A. Heavey, J. Kaiser, N. Kuropatkin, R. Pordes, V. Sekhri, J. Weigand, Y. Wu, K. Baker, L. Sorrillo, J. Huth, M. Allen, L. Grundhoefer, J. Hicks, F. Luehring, S. Peck, R. Quick, S. Simms, G. Fekete, J. van den Berg, K. Cho, K. Kwon, D. Son, H. Park, S. Canon, K. Jackson, D. E. Konerding, J. Lee, D. Olson, I. Sakrejda, B. Tierney, M. Green, R. Miller, J. Letts, T. Martin, D. Bury, C. Dumitrescu, D. Engh, R. Gardner, M. Mambelli, Y. Smirnov, J. Voeckler, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao, X. Zhao, P. Avery, R. Cavanaugh, B. Kim, C. Prescott, J. Rodriguez, A. Zahn, S. McKee, C. Jordan, J. Prewett, T. Thomas, H. Severini, B. Clifford, E. Deelman, L. Flon, C. Kesselman, G. Mehta, N. Olomu, K. Vahi, K. De, P. McGuigan, M. Sosebee, D. Bradley, P. Couvares, A. de Smet, C. Kireyev, E. Paulson, A. Roy, S. Koranda, B. Moe, B. Brown, P. Sheldon

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Abstract

The Grid2003 Project has deployed a multi-virtual organization, application-driven grid laboratory ("GridS") that has sustained for several months the production-level services required by physics experiments of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (ATLAS and CMS), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project, the gravitational wave search experiment LIGO, the BTeV experiment at Fermilab, as well as applications in molecular structure analysis and genome analysis, and computer science research projects in such areas as job and data scheduling. The deployed infrastructure has been operating since November 2003 with 27 sites, a peak of 2800 processors, work loads from 10 different applications exceeding 1300 simultaneous jobs, and data transfers among sites of greater than 2 TB/day. We describe the principles that have guided the development of this unique infrastructure and the practical experiences that have resulted from its creation and use. We discuss application requirements for grid services deployment and configuration, monitoring infrastructure, application performance, metrics, and operational experiences. We also summarize lessons learned.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)236-245
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Proceedings
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings - 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: Jun 4 2004Jun 6 2004

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