Caltech Grid Enabled Analysis 

The Caltech Grid Enabled Analysis group works on providing an integrated service oriented environment for physicists to support distributed analysis of physics data from the CMS LHC experiment. A Grid Analysis Environment is a combination of software architecture, network and storage infrastructure, and software collaboration and analysis tools to enable many people to make effective use of Data and Computational computer Grids. Our group focuses on 5 sub areas:

• MonALISA. End-to-end monitoring and self organizing algorithms using a distributed monitoring framework.
• Clarens Web Service Framework.A grid toolkit for service oriented development and deployment of applications in a distribution environment.
• Network algorithms and protocols to provide fast and efficient transfer of data from the CMS detector to different Tier-n sites in the world.
• Video Conferencing Systems. Provide a community of geographically distributed research groups with the functionality of real-time audio and video.
• Monarc. Simulation of distributed systems.

All these areas need to be combined and integrated, with other activities in the physics community to provide a multi-user distributed service oriented scalable analysis environment. Many of the applications developed within our group are not restricted in applicability to physics but can also be used within other environment to support or develop scalable distributed systems.