GRAPPA
 GRid Access Portal for Physics Applications

Part of the Grid Physics Network Project  (GriPhyN),  the U.S. ATLAS Software and Computing Project, and the International ATLAS Experiment  (find out more)

Goal: to provide ATLAS physicists a point of access to Grid resources.

Portal animation

To install the Grappa package:

  1. Make sure your have pacman installed.
  2. add the xbooks-grappa cache: http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xportlets/pacman/grappa-cache to the pacman 'caches' file
  3. run: `pacman -get grappa-demo`

FAQ

Grid Portal Bibliography
 

Features: a method (portal) for physicists to easily submit requests to run high throughput computing jobs on remote machines. Job submission should be a  straightforward task, but still allow for parameter entry.  Initially the portal need only allow submission of one job type (an Athena or an ATLSIM job) and should then be expanded based on user feedback and new scenario documents to allow other jobs to be submitted via the same interface. User Interface - based on the Extreme! Computing Lab's Science Portals Project.  While the user can enter information about operating system and RAM requirements etc., the user does not have to select which computer the job is to run on. Application Monitoring/Job Output – logs and other output should be returned to the user.  The user should also be able to check the status of the job as it is running. For example, the user may look at the first few lines of output and decide to terminate the job. Security/Authentication – depending on the resource the user may have an account on the computer, or Globus credentials. Resource Management – Make accessible to users a listing of available resources, resource usage statistics, monitoring tools and accounting information for all resources on the grid.

Currently involved with Grappa:
 
Daniel Engh djengh@hep.uchicago.edu UC Physics System design, project lead
Liang Fang lifang@cs.indiana.edu IU Computer Science Portal-developer
Rob Gardner rwg@indiana.edu UC Physics Physicist-user

Grappa alumni:
 
Jenny Schopf jms@cs.nwu.edu Northwestern University Computer Science Resource Scheduling
Valerie Taylor taylor@nile.ece.nwu.edu Northwestern University Engineering Monitoring
Dheeraj Bhardwaj dheerajb@nile.ece.nwu.edu Northwestern University Engineering Monitoring
Saul Yousef youssef@bu.edu Boston University Physics Physicist-developer
Randall Bramley bramley@cs.indiana.edu IU Computer Science Notebook development
Dennis Gannon gannon@cs.indiana.edu IU Computer Science Notebook Condor interface
Shava Smallen ssmallen@cs.indiana.edu IU Computer Science  Notebook, GRAPPA design and development
Lisa Ensman lensman@indiana.edu IU Physics Physicist-user
Fred Luehring luehring@indiana.edu IU Physics Physicist-user
Kristy Kallback-Rose kallbac@indiana.edu IU Physics System design
Sriram Krishnan srikrish@cs.indiana.edu IU CS Notebook development
Yu (Marie) Ma yuma@cs.indiana.edu IU CS Notebook development
Rob Kopenec kopenec@indiana.edu IU Pysics Physics analysis

 

Recent Additions

Project Proposal

  • Long Term Goals
  • Grappa Wish List
  • Short Term Goals (Summer 2001)
  • Short Term Goals (Summer 2001) UPDATED

    • Talks & Demos

    Documents

    Related Documents

    Discussion Forums and Web Links

    Grappa User Documentation

    Demo Testing Notes


    Grappa's in the real world