The nordic data grid facility

"In a year from now, the world-wide High Energy Physics community will launch the biggest machine ever, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN." (4 pages

A distributed Tier-1

The Tier-1 facility operated by the Nordic DataGrid Facility (NDGF) differs significantly from other Tier-1s in several aspects: firstly, it is not located at one or a few premises, but instead is distributed throughout the Nordic countries; secondly, it is not under the governance of a single organization but instead is a meta-center built of resources under the control of a number of different national organizations. We present some technical implications of these aspects as well as the high-level design of this distributed Tier-1. The focus will be on computing services, storage and monitoring