GIOD & GAE

Grid Enabled Analysis

GAE

Clarens

CAIGEE

Tier2 Information

The GIOD Project

Description

Presentations

Images

Results

Publications

Contacts

Press

Notes

General

Web Server Statistics

JJB's Home Page

GIOD  Partners

Caltech's Centre for Advanced Computing Research

Caltech's HEP department


CERN's Information Technology Division


CERN's CMS experiment

Hewlett Packard Company

 

GIOD and GAE: Computing and Software for the Large Hadron Collider

Latest Information

Information about an attempted port of CMSSW to Windows

Supercomputing SC07, Reno, Nevada

Presentation made at the JHU eScience Workshop on the topic of "Globally Distributed Computing and Networking for Particle Physics Event Analysis", 10/13/2006 (PPT)

Supercomputing SC06, Tampa, Florida

Creating Portals with the Clarens GAE toolkit

PCI Bus Use Investigation

Click the image for more information on the GIOD Project.

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A position statement "The Importance of Data Locality in Distributed Computing Applications", Alex Szalay, Julian Bunn, Jim Gray, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu prepared for the NSF Workflow Workshop, May 1-2, 2006, and presented there by Alex.

Some usage guidelines for bbcp.

We hosted the Rector of Pakistan's NUST university, at a visit to Caltech in December 2005.

Information about the SC2005 Caltech Booth and Bandwidth Challenge.

An information page on the Caltech/CACR Booth at SC2004, and the Press Release describing our 100Gbits/sec winning entry in the SC2004 Bandwidth Challenge.

We have some student projects in the area of Grid Enabled Analysis: contact me if you are interested.

An informal talk entitled "Grids 4 Physics 101" describing HEP-related Grid projects and their history. (PPT,PDF) [Beware: PPT is about 12MB, PDF is about 6MB)

Data Intensive Grids for High Energy Physics ... by Julian Bunn and Harvey Newman

Pages describing the Grid Analysis Environment work.

The SC2001 Bandwidth Challenge entry.

A description of the prototype Tier2 computing facility, installed at the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR).

A series of lectures on Distributed Databases (PDF,PPT), given by JJB at the Nathiagali Summer College in Pakistan, 2001

COJAC - A Java and Java3D based geometry viewer for GEANT3 geometry files. Uses the Java Native Interface with CERN Program Library and utility C and Fortran files. The linked zip file contains the source code and installation instructions for Linux. COJAC was developed on Windows 2000. A picture of the viewer.

A talk on Virtual Data for HEP Analysis.

"The GIOD Project" - paper accepted at the Computing in High Energy Physics conference, Padova, Italy, Februuary 2000.

Some early results using gsiftp between Caltech and Argonne (Word, PDF)

A short version of the GIOD Final Status Report (Word, PDF)

The Final Status Report from the GIOD Project (Word, PDF)

Genetic algorithm track finding

Picture of our 1 TByte Fibre-Channel disk array (from nStor) and Sun Enterprise 250 server.

Presentation, September 1999 : at the EU-US Workshop on large scientific databases in Annapolis by JJB

Report from Josh Bao on network monitoring studies

Article : NPACI User Report: Discovering the Higgs Particle(s), 1999

The JavaCMS animated GIF

Extended Abstract on Object Database scalability tests, submitted to SC'99

Presentation at the weekly Digital Sky meeting in CACR

A Brochure describing the GIOD Project, prepared by Hewlett-Packard Co.

Presentation on the Objectivity/HPSS Interface by Andy Hanushevsky

Status Report for the Project, March 1999

Initial Tests with ODBMS Clients over ATM

The PASTA report

Briefing on the new HPSS system at Caltech/CACR

Diagram of WAN setup for database access tests with SDSC

Java 3D event viewer using JFC

Presentation at I2-DSI Workshop

Old Projects (Funded and Proposed)

The Global Grid-Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research (GECSR) to NSF, 2003 (and in PDF)
The FAST Proposal to NSF, 2003
The CAIGEE Project (NSF Funded)
The International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL) (NSF funded)
The Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) Project (NSF funded)
The Scientific Data Collaboratory (SciDaC) Project (DoE funded)
The Particle Physics Data Grid (DoE/NGI funded)
Models Of Networked Analysis at Regional Centres (CERN funded)[3]
Accessing Large Data Archives in Astronomy and Particle Physics (NSF/KDI funded) with Alex Szalay (JHU) et al.

 

 


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  02/27/2008 by Julian Bunn, email: Julian.Bunn@caltech.edu