  Every year the PHENIX collaboration deals with increasing volume of data (now
about 1/4 PB/year). Apparently the more data the more questions how to process
all the data in most efficient way. In recent past many developments in HEP
computing were dedicated to the production environment. Now we need more tools
to help to obtain physics results from the analysis of distributed simulated
and experimental data. Developments in Grid architectures gave many examples
how distributed computing facilities can be organized to meet physics analysis
needs. We feel that our main task in this area is to try to use already
developed systems or system components in PHENIX environment.
  We are concentrating here on the followed problems: file/replica catalog
which keep names of our files, data moving over WAN, job submission in
multicluster environment.
  PHENIX is a running experiment and this fact narrowed our ability to test new
software on the collaboration computer facilities. We are experimenting with
system prototypes at State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB) where
we run midrange computing cluster for physics analysis. The talk is dedicated
to discuss some experience with Grid software and achieved results.
