[Rivet] Running Rivet on the grid

[Frank Siegert]

Andy Buckley, Wednesday 15 October 2008:
> Ben Waugh wrote:
> > Maybe it's time we had another look at using the CEDAR VO to make
> > better use of the LCG middleware. The data management side of things
> > seems rather better developed now than when we first created the VO,
> > and there may be tools we can use to distribute the required software
> > to any sites that agree to support CEDAR (which will be at least UCL
> > and Durham I hope, and probably the other LondonGrid sites) rather
> > than each job having to download its own set of tarballs.
>
> I wonder if using the Pheno VO would be more sensible --- I've copied
> David (on holiday until Monday) and Peter so they can comment on
> whether GENSER is fully supported on all Pheno-compatible sites. If so,
> there seems little point in duplicating the VO management time.
>
> Incidentally, is it possible to submit a Grid job under, say, the ATLAS
> VO with the condition that it must be sent to a CE which supports the
> Pheno (or CEDAR VO)?

That's also something I was wondering about for the validator: If it works 
out, the validator will be useful for Rivet (validating Rivet), the 
generator authors (validating a new generator version), and maybe even 
experiments (validating a generator tune). Since these groups might 
belong to different VOs, it would be nice if the software requirements 
for a grid job are specified completely separately from the VO you use. I 
thought this was the case, but have never used software requirements 
myself.

Frank