Usage of message queueing technologies in the ATLAS distributed data management system

Abstract

The ATLAS Distributed Data Management system is composed of semi-autonomous, heterogeneous, and independently designed subsystems. To achieve successful operation of such a system, the activities of the agents controlling the subsystems have to be coordinated. In addition, external applications can require to synchronize on events relative to data availability. A common way to proceed is to implement polling strategies within the distributed components, which leads to an increase of the load in the overall system. We describe an alternative based on notifications using standard message queuing. The application of this technology in the distributed system has been exercised.