Grid Leadership

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Grid Leadership

• Avery
• PI of GriPhyN (11 M ITR Project)
• PI of iVDGL (13 M ITR Project)
• Co-PI of CHEPREO
• Co-PI of UltraLight
• President of SESAPS
• Ranka
• PI of Data Mining exploration Middleware for
  Grid and Distributed Computinhg (1.5 M ITR
  Project)
• Project Co-lead for Sphinx
• Senior Personnel on CHEPREO
• PI MRI

• Bourilkov
• Project Lead for CAVES and CODESH
• Cavanaugh
• Project Coordinator for UltraLight
• Deputy Coordinator for GriPhyN
• Project Co-Lead for Sphinx
• Prescott
• Co-organised the Boston OSG Technical Workshop
• US-CMS Production Manager
• Rodriguez
• Deputy Coordinator for iVDGL
• Deployment Board Co-chair for OSG
• KIM
• Project Lead for GridCAT

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Sphinx
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• Sphinx is a Grid Scheduler for Data Intensive
  Applications
• Accounts for CPU, Storage, Band Width Resources
• Scheduling decisions based on global views
  providing a Quality of Service
• Particularly in a resource limited environment
• Extensible, flexible framework
• Co-Led by Ranka and Cavanaugh
• Expected Ph.D. Theses
• In (Quality of Service),
• Chitnis (Global Views),
• Kulkarni (High Bandwidth Applications)

VDT Client
Recommendation Engine
VDT Server
VDT Server
VDT Server
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CAVES CODESH

• Concentrate on the interactions between
  scientists collaborating over extended periods of
  time
• Seamlessly log, exchange and reproduce analysis
  results (and the corresponding methods,
  algorithms and programs)
• Automatic and complete logging
• reuse of work or analysis sessions
• Enable users to work in their habitual way
• giving them virtual data capabilities
• Build collaboration suites (stay close to users!)
• Led by Bourilkov

First prototypes use popular tools Python, ROOT
and CVS e.g. all ROOT commands and CAVES
commands available
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Publications

• Computing in High Energy Physics
• Virtual Data in CMS Analysis (2003, Bourilkov)
• Virtual Data in CMS Production (2003, Cavanaugh)
• UF Proto T2 Facility (2004, Rodriguez et al)
• GridCAT (2004, Kim)
• Sphinx (2004, In et al)
• The GRID II (ed. Foster, Kesselman)
• Federated Analysis for High Energy Physics (2003,
  Graham, Cavanaugh et al)
• International Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Symposium 2004
• Policy Based Scheduling for Simple Quality of
  Service in Grid Computing (2004, In et al)