Contact: Junwei Cao SC2005, Seattle, WA, November 12-18, 2005 The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology of India, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This work is directly supported under National Science Foundation award # Grid Enabled LIGO Data Monitoring Junwei Cao 1, Erik Katsavounidis 1, and John Zweizig 2 1 LIGO Laboratory - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 2 LIGO Laboratory - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA LIGO: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory The LSC Data Grid (LDG) The LIGO project aims to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. LIGO manages and operates two national observatories for gravitational waves, located at Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) consists of nearly 400 scientists from about 40 institutions worldwide. In the LSC, a grid computing infrastructure is utilized for LIGO data analysis and monitoring with thousands of CPUs and terabytes of data storage capabilities distributed over 10 sites in the USA and Europe. The LSC Data Grid (LDG) client/server environment is built on top of the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT). The LIGO Data Monitoring (LDM) Environment LDM interfaces users with a LIGO friendly language instead of the more CS flavor Condor language. Technical details of grid computing are hidden from end users (mostly gravitational wave physicists in the LSC). The experience gained in this work will be applied for future deployment of the Open Science Grid (OSG) infrastructure for LIGO applications. The Data Monitoring Toolkit (DMT) DMT defines tools and environments necessary to support continuous data monitoring of LIGO interferometers. While DMT is essentially a production- level software package being used in LIGO control rooms, researchers find the enrichment of DMT libraries make it an ideal environment for offline LIGO data analysis. For More Information … edu/lscdatagrid For the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) LIGO Document No. G E