No. 38 (00129)

Family name : Rademakers
Given name : Fons
Affiliation : CERN
Abbreviation : 
E-mail address : Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch
Title : Parallel Interactive Analysis on tsis on the GRID using PROOF
        and CONDORe GRID using PROOF and CONDOR
Authors : Maarten Ballintijn, Fons Rademakers
Abstract : 
The Parallel ROOT Facility, PROOF, enables a physicist to analyze and
understand much larger data sets on a shorter time scale. It makes use
of the inherent parallelism in event data and implements an architecture
that optimizes I/O and CPU utilization in heterogeneous clusters with
distributed storage. The system provides transparent and interactive
access to gigabytes today. Being part of the ROOT framework PROOF
inherits the benefits of a performant object storage system and a wealth
of statistical and visualization tools. In this paper we describe how
PROOF uses the new CONDOR Computing On Demand (COD) features to get high
priority access to nodes in a cluster. This is the first step to fully
Grid enabling the PROOF system.