Ganga Maintenance, Development and Support
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Computing resources for the LHCb collaboration are located at national centres, regional centres and individual institutes. The purpose of the Ganga project is to provide physicists with an easy-to-use interface that gives them access to the distributed resources in a transparent way. Ganga performs this task by providing a user interface that hides the complexity and heterogeneous structure of the underlying systems. At the same time Ganga serves as a light-weight book-keeping tool for large scale analysis, thus relieving users from repetitive and tedious tasks. Ganga forms a cornerstone in the LHCb computing model and as such requires continued effort to ensure that the project will satisfy the requirements as they evolve in the data taking period. Ganga is used by an increasing number of scientists to support their computing tasks on the Grid. Examples include the data analysis in ATLAS and LHCb, searches for drugs to combat avian flu, the commercial Camtology projects for image classification and the Monte Carlo production system for the MINOS experiment in HEP.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Ulrik Egede (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Moscicki J
(2009)
Ganga: A tool for computational-task management and easy access to Grid resources
in Computer Physics Communications
| Description | An interactive frontend for grid and cloud computing. |
| Exploitation Route | There is continued work on extending the tools developed for use in multiple sectors of scientific computing. |
| Sectors | Education,Environment,Other |
| URL | http://www.cern.ch/ganga |
| Description | GridPP4 |
| Amount | £662,002 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2011 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | LHCb |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Proving the ability of the LHCb collaboration members to perform data mining on the collected data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Creation of use cases for distributed data mining and provision of an API for interacting with the DIRAC production system |
| Impact | Multiple publications in the the area of heavy flavour High Energy Particle physics |
| Description | The Ganga developers |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | IT Department |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Developments in the core software of Ganga. |
| Impact | A fully maintained and actively set of core tools for data mining in a distributed computing environment. Associated documentation and publications. |
| Description | The Ganga developers |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Department | Faculty of Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Developments in the core software of Ganga. |
| Impact | A fully maintained and actively set of core tools for data mining in a distributed computing environment. Associated documentation and publications. |
| Description | The Ganga developers |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Department | Nuclear and High Energy Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Developments in the core software of Ganga. |
| Impact | A fully maintained and actively set of core tools for data mining in a distributed computing environment. Associated documentation and publications. |
| Description | The Ganga developers |
| Organisation | University of Oslo |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Developments in the core software of Ganga. |
| Impact | A fully maintained and actively set of core tools for data mining in a distributed computing environment. Associated documentation and publications. |
| Title | The Ganga user interface for distributed analysis |
| Description | Development of the Ganga Core software - Copyright stays wit hthe individual authors - Licensed for use under the GPL license version 3 |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Copyrighted (e.g. software) |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | The software is used by a large number of collaborators across the globe. |
| Description | School visit, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 100 students involved in discussion about the physics and computing of the LHC N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |