pyHepGrid: Tool for distributed computing management geared towards HEP applications.

Welcome to the documentation for pyHepGrid.

(Incomplete, and always will be. The grid is a mysterious thing…)

Authors and acknowledgements

This code has seen contributions from the authors listed below (no particular order). It has been developed mostly at Durham’s IPPP, the main motivation being allowing maximal access to the available computing infrastructure, with maximal success.

Juan M Cruz-Martinez

Duncan Walker

Marian Heil

James Whitehead

James Black

Indices and tables

Contents:

• Setup
  • Initial setup
    • NNLOJET Setup (for nnlojet developers only)
  • Grid Script Setup
    • Further customisations (advanced usage)
  • Arc Proxy setup
    • Automated (set & forget)
  • DIRAC
• Usage
  • pyHepGrid instruction set
  • Finalising results
    • Default setup
    • Custom setups
  • Normal workflow
  • runcard.py files details
• Monitoring
  • Monitoring sites
    • Durham ARC monitoring website
    • DIRAC monitoring website
    • UK ARC INFO
  • Grid storage management
  • NNLOJET distributed warmup
  • Hamilton queues