FDT - PhEDEx integration project (fdtcp)

This experimental integration project is aimed at linking CMS (CERN Compact Muon Solenoid [1]) data transfers system PhEDEx [2] and Caltech's high-perf data transfer application FDT (Fast Data Transfer) [3]. The ultimate goal is to bring dynamic network circuits provided by the DYNES (Dynamic Network Services) [4], which is an Internet2 project funded by NSF (National Science Foundation), to CMS data transfers. The DYNES plug-in for FDT application exists and the purpose of fdtcp is to integrate FDT with high-level and claimed to be network-agnostic system PhEDEx. The fdtcplib projects provides CLI utilities and daemon fdtd application which are Python wrappers for FDT application. Grid authentication via Grid Map File, third-party transfers and various other features necessary for integration with PhEDEx are implemented here. The test transfers were realized between Caltech and Nebraska Tier2 CMS centres utilizing HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System).

More on: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/PhEDExFDTIntegration doc/fdtcp_chep2010_proceedings.pdf

[1] http://cms.web.cern.ch/ [2] https://cmsweb.cern.ch/phedex/ [3] http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/ [4] http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/396/4/042065/pdf/1742-6596_396_4_042065.pdf