CRAB: A CMS application for distributed analysis

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2850-2858

  Codispoti, Giuseppe ^a,b   Mattia, Cinquilli ^c   Fanfani, Alessandra ^a,b   Fanzago, Federica ^a,d   Farina, Fabio ^d,e   Kavka, Carlos ^f   Lacaprara, Stefano ^g   Miccio, Vincenzo ^a,d   Spiga, Daniele ^d,h   Vaandering, Eric ⁱ  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

ⁱ FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing; Computing applications; Data analysis; Distributed computing; Grid computing

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SHARING; GRID COMPUTING; HADRONS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTING; COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; COMPUTING CENTER; COMPUTING MODEL; DISTRIBUTED ANALYSIS; END-USERS; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; GRID MIDDLEWARE; PETABYTES; REMOTE ANALYSIS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 70350173264     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2028076     Document Type: Article

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