Ganga Maintenance, Development and Support

LHCb合作的计算资源位于国家中心、区域中心和个别研究所。Ganga项目的目的是为物理学家提供一个易于使用的界面，使他们能够以透明的方式访问分布式资源。Ganga通过提供隐藏底层系统的复杂性和异构结构的用户界面来执行此任务。同时，Ganga作为一个轻量级的簿记工具，用于大规模分析，从而使用户从重复和繁琐的任务中解脱出来。Ganga是LHCb计算模型的基石，因此需要持续努力，以确保项目在数据采集期间满足需求。越来越多的科学家使用Ganga来支持他们在网格上的计算任务。例子包括ATLAS和LHCb中的数据分析，寻找防治禽流感的药物，用于图像分类的商业Camtology项目和用于HEP MINOS实验的Monte Carlo生产系统。

Computing resources for the LHCb collaboration are located at national centres, regional centres and individual institutes. The purpose of the Ganga project is to provide physicists with an easy-to-use interface that gives them access to the distributed resources in a transparent way. Ganga performs this task by providing a user interface that hides the complexity and heterogeneous structure of the underlying systems. At the same time Ganga serves as a light-weight book-keeping tool for large scale analysis, thus relieving users from repetitive and tedious tasks. Ganga forms a cornerstone in the LHCb computing model and as such requires continued effort to ensure that the project will satisfy the requirements as they evolve in the data taking period. Ganga is used by an increasing number of scientists to support their computing tasks on the Grid. Examples include the data analysis in ATLAS and LHCb, searches for drugs to combat avian flu, the commercial Camtology projects for image classification and the Monte Carlo production system for the MINOS experiment in HEP.