Physics Data Processing and NDPF Wiki

Welcome to the collaborative editing space of the NIKHEF Physics Data Processing team and the Nikhef Data Processing Facility "NDPF".

Available on this Wiki:

PDP: Information provided by, or about, the Physics Data Processing group
NDPF News: current status of the Nikhef Data Processing Facility
NDPF: detailed information for the NDPF facility, including local HOW-TOs and systems information
Grid@Nikhef: information and HOW-TOs on how to access the grid infrastructure from the Nikhef desktops
Site Access Control: LCAS, LCMAPS, SCAS and gLExec: the Site Access Control suite from Nikhef's EGEE gLite team
External Links: Interesting links about the Grid world and the related projects

Other information on this Wiki, contributed by PDP members

Agile testbed: Technical overview of the software development and certification testbed, a.k.a. P4CTB.

VL-e Resource Guide: an overview of available grid resources for members of the VL-e project.

Pushing TORQUE jobs in a chroot environment: Article describing how Torque can be patched and configured to run jobs in an isolated part of the file system.

Virtual Machines working group: Working group to investigate the feasibility of running virtual machines on the BIG grid infrastructure.

jGridstart: a Java GUI for grid end-users to request, obtain, install and renew grid certificates in a friendly way

FileStager: A package developed in Gaudi, to solve the problem of the slow LHCb analysis jobs run on Stoomboot