The CMS experiment is managing hundreds petabytes of data recorded by
the detector and simulated physics events. Data is transferred to
distributed computing sites providing facilities for data storage, and
computing resources for data processing and analysis. PhEDEx, the Physics Experiment Data Export, maintains the knowledge of data
replicas locations and manages data transfers between the CMS sites.
Main PhEDEx components are:
Central Transfer Management Database (TMDB) maintaining a system state
Agents performing central and local site-specific tasks
Interactive Web Page for management and monitoring
Web data service providing APIs for integration with other tools
Command-line tools for management, monitoring, and administration