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High-Energy Physics Applications
on the Grid

Massimo Lamanna

CONTENTS
17.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 433
17.2 The ARDA Project in LCG/EGEE ............................................ 437
17.3 The LHC and the Grid Projects ................................................ 439
17.4 HEP Analysis .............................................................................. 441
17.5 The Dashboard and the Grid Reliability Tools ...................... 446
17.6 Data Management ...................................................................... 452
17.6.1 Storage Resource Manager ............................................. 452
17.6.2 File Transfer Service ........................................................ 452
17.6.3 Grid Catalogs ................................................................... 453
17.7 Conclusions ................................................................................. 455
Acknowledgments .............................................................................. 456
References ............................................................................................ 456

17.1
In this chapter we will describe the usage of the grid in the High-Energy
Physics (HEP) environment at the beginning of 2008. We will almost
exclusively leverage on the experience and plans of the four major experi-
ments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN [1].

Introduction

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