Harvester. New developments for PanDA Workload Management System.

Pilot 2.0 and Harvester. New developments for PanDA Workload Management System.

Harvester is a resource-facing service between the PanDA server and collection of pilots for resource provisioning and workload shaping. It is a lightweight stateless service running on a VObox or an edge node of HPC centers to provide a uniform view for various resources. The following picture shows how harvester interacts with PanDA and resources.

More about Harvester is here .