"The Grid: The Future of High Energy Physics Computing?"

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The Grid: The Future of High Energy Physics Computing? 00:00:00
Acknowledgements 00:00:10
Outline 00:00:37
What is The Grid ? 00:01:21
Grid Perspectives 00:01:52
Some Important Definitions* 00:02:31
Resource 00:02:43
Application Programming Interface 00:03:12
The Grid Problem 00:03:45
Elements of the Problem 00:04:56
Why Grids? 00:05:45
Online Access to Scientific Instruments 00:06:24
Mathematicians Solve NUG30 00:06:36
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation 00:07:33
Home Computers Evaluate AIDS Drugs 00:07:49
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Broader Context 00:08:19
Why Now? 00:09:14
Network Exponentials 00:09:48
The Network 00:10:26
Motivation for the Grid 00:10:57
Large Hadron Collider at CERN 00:11:04
Four LHC Experiments: The Petabyte to Exabyte Challenge 00:11:16
How Much Data is Involved? 00:11:42
ATLAS 00:12:04
00:12:30
Discovery Potential for SM Higgs Boson 00:12:42
00:13:11
Data Flow from ATLAS 00:13:29
ATLAS Parameters 00:13:46
Data Intensive Computing and Grids 00:14:27
Data Intensive Issues Include 00:15:15
Examples of Desired Data Grid Functionality 00:16:23
HEP Data Analysis 00:17:30
Production Analysis 00:17:59
Physics Analysis 00:18:37
A Model Architecture for Data Grids 00:19:13
LHC Computing Model (Based on MONARC Simulations) 00:20:24
Why Worldwide Computing? Regional Center Concept Goals 00:21:38
Tier 2 Centers 00:23:39
Who is working on the Grid? 00:24:38
HENP Related Data Grid Projects 00:24:46
Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) 00:25:44
International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory 00:26:12
TeraGrid: NCSA, ANL, SDSC, Caltech 00:26:45
Selected Major Grid Projects 00:27:46
Selected Major Grid Projects 00:27:52
Selected Major Grid Projects 00:27:53
Selected Major Grid Projects 00:27:54
Grid Related Work at Michigan 00:27:57
Grid Activities at Michigan 00:28:05
USATLAS Data Grid Testbed 00:29:08
US ATLAS Grid Testbed Activities 00:29:16
Internet2 HENP Networking WG [*] Mission 00:29:30
UM/ATLAS Grid Cluster Current Status as of January 2002 00:30:13
Networking and the Grid 00:30:23
Why Networking? 00:30:28
Transatlantic Net WG (HN, L. Price) Bandwidth Requirements [*] 00:31:07
TCP WAN Performance 00:32:23
Network Monitoring: Iperf 00:33:16
Testbed Network Measurements 00:33:40
Iperf Network Test Setup 00:34:25
UM Network IPERF Results 00:35:06
Achieving High Performance Networking 00:35:35
Back to the Grid 00:37:29
The Globus Project Making Grid computing a reality 00:37:32
Globus Toolkit Components 00:38:17
Layered Grid Architecture (By Analogy to Internet Architecture) 00:38:40
The Hourglass Model 00:39:32
Resource Layer Protocols and Services 00:40:01
Collective Layer Protocols and Services 00:41:35
Example: High-Throughput Computing System 00:42:01
Virtual Data Queries 00:42:34
Virtual Data Scenario 00:45:58
The Future of the Grid 00:47:28
Problem Evolution 00:47:32
The Globus View of the Future: All Software is Network-Centric 00:48:43
And Thus 00:49:12
Future of the Grid for HEP 00:49:52
Conclusions 00:51:02
For More Information on the Grid 00:51:40