  Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider started in March 2001, and it will
continue probing the high energy frontier in particle physics until the start
of the LHC at CERN. The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has already stored 260 TB
of data and expects to store 1PB of data in the next two years. The HEXCAF
computing farm is being set up at Rutgers University to provide the software
environment, computing resources, and access to data for physicists
participating in the Collaboration. Some job submission, detector data access
and storage of the output results are based on the SAM-GRID tools. To extend
monitoring for these jobs running on the farm a bridge was developed between
the SAM-GRID monitoring tools and the internal farm monitoring. This
presentation will describe the configuration and functionality of the HEXCAF
farm with the emphasis on the monitoring tools. Finally we summarize our
experience of installing and operating a GRID environment on a remote cluster
that is being used for real physics studies in the big running experiment.
