Management documentation
- Site deployment description.
- Management agents description.
- Testbed setup and operation description.
- Operations guide, current operations practises for CMS transfers; currently information only for CERN, but hopefully more later on.
Overview publications and posters
- 'Executive summary' presentation for UK PPARC Oversight Committee
- "Software agents in data and workflow management", Barrass et al, CHEP04, Interlaken, Switzerland
- "PhEDEx: Reliable, scalable dataset replication", Barrass et al, FrontierScience, Milan, Italy [ A0 Poster: pdf,ai ]
- "Robust, high-throughput transfer system techniques", Barrass et al, CHEP06, Mumbai, India [ A0 Poster: pdf,ai ]
- "PhEDEx high-throughput data transfer management system", Rehn et al, CHEP06, Mumbai, India [ Presentation: pdf ] [ Paper: pdf ]
Overview documentation
- Overview: general description of the system.
- File routing: how files are routed.
- Schema: the database schema and how transfer agents should interpret and maintain the information.
Detailed documentation
- Transfer request management and more specifically, how to inject data from CMS RefDB into transfer.
- Drop box agents description
- File merging prior to transfer (incomplete).
- File scheduling (being written).
- RLS standalone test-bed setup and RLS benchmarking.