Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider started in March 2001,
and it will continue probing the high energy frontier in particle physics
until the start of the LHC at CERN. The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has
already stored 260 TB of data and expects to store 1PB of data in the next
two years. The HEXCAF computing farm is being set up at Rutgers University
to provide the software environment, computing resources, and access to data
for physicists participating in the Collaboration. Some job submission,
detector data access and storage of the output results are based on the
SAM-GRID tools. To extend monitoring for these jobs running on the farm a
bridge was developed between the SAM-GRID monitoring tools and the internal
farm monitoring. This presentation will describe the configuration and
functionality of the HEXCAF farm with the emphasis on the monitoring tools.
Finally we summarize our experience of installing and operating a GRID
environment on a remote cluster that is being used for real physics studies
in the big running experiment.
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Updated: Tuesday, 2005 September 13 11:01:57 CDT automatically from input from Carol Picciolo