New approaches in user-centric job monitoring on the LHC Computing Grid [Elektronische Ressource] : Application of remote debugging and real time data selection techniques / Tim dos Santos

FACHBEREICH C - FACHGRUPPE PHYSIKBERGISCHE UNIVERSITATWUPPERTALNew approaches inuser-centric job monitoringon the LHC Computing GridApplication of remote debugging andreal time data selection techniquesDissertationbyTim dos SantosJuly 25, 2011Diese Dissertation kann wie folgt zitiert werden: urn:nbn:de:hbz:468-20110727-113510-6 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:hbz:468-20110727-113510-6] ContentsI Introduction 91 Context: On High Energy Physics (HEP) 131.1 Current research in HEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.1.1 The Standard Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.1.2 Examples for open questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.2 CERN and the LHC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.2.1 The Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.2.2 The ATLAS Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.2.3 Data ow in ATLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.2.4 Real-time data reduction: Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.3 Software in HEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.3.1 High-performance maths and core services: ROOT . . . 231.3.2 Event generators and detector simulation tools . . . . . . 241.3.3 ATLAS’ main physics analysis framework: Athena . . 252 Grid Computing 292.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.1.1 De nition of the term \Grid Computing" . . . . . . . . . 292.1.