Dave, MONARCH did a simulation of the LHC Tier model. I think Will Bell
or someone else at Glasgow looked at it as part of their work on network
costs in replication optimisation. If not then Iosif Legrande should
know more.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr D J Colling
> Sent: 15 December 2005 19:32
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> Subject: [LCG-ROLLOUT] Models of the LCG?
>
> Dear All,
>
> As you may know we collect various pieces of performance
> information about the LCG. Now, we were interested to see how
> to interpret this information and we thought that a model of
> the LCG might be useful in trying to understand which numbers
> are actually important. So this model would have to be
> tuneable so that we could add the timings and job retries etc.
>
> It occurred to me that a few years ago lots of people seemed
> to be writing computer models of the grid (then edg). I was
> wondering if any group had continued with this activity and
> had a model that we could use in the way that I described?
> Clearly, there may be additions that we would have to make
> and bits of tweaking etc, however it would seem pointless us
> developing a model if there is already something out there.
>
> So if anybody does know of modelling activity then we would
> be grateful if you would get in touch.
>
> All the best,
> david
>
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