The SAM-GRID project: architecture and plan

Abstract SAM is a robust distributed file-based data management and access service, fully integrated with the D0 experiment at Fermilab and in phase of evaluation at the CDF experiment. The goal of the SAM-Grid project is to fully enable distributed computing for the experiments. The architecture of the project is composed of three primary functional blocks: the job handling, data handling, and monitoring and information services. Job handling and monitoring/information services are built on top of standard grid technologies (Condor-G/Globus Toolkit), which are integrated with the data handling system provided by SAM. The plan is devised to provide the users incrementally increasing levels of capability over the next 2 years.