Applying live job monitoring techniques to Monte Carlo validation / by Frank Volkmer. Wuppertal, November 19, 2016
Inhalt
- Danksagung
- Outline of this Thesis
- Primer: Experimenting in High Energy Particle Physics
- JEM
- Analyzing backtraces over the Grid
- Live Monte Carlo Validation
- Introduction
- Motivation
- Necessity to validate Monte Carlo software
- Online validation procedures
- ATLAS Monte Carlo validation group
- Activation Service
- Motivation
- The JEMstub pilot module
- Activation Service web front-end
- Rule based request evaluation
- ActSvcRuleEvaluater
- Requesting JEM for specific tasks
- Requesting JEM for validation tasks by matching criteria
- Summary
- Task validation operations
- Motivation
- Use of external software
- Instrumenting validation jobs with JEM
- Server side actions
- Presenting results
- Direct reference file comparison
- Summary
- Reference file cache
- Web interface for validation control
- Motivation for an external control interface
- Live Monte Carlo Validation control
- Task progress overviews
- Summary
- Operational Experience
- Future technical advances
- Possible alternative solutions
- Summary & Outlook
- Appendices