Development of a CMS Tier-3 center and HEP computing for LHC physics

This presentation will highlight HEP computing efforts made to prepare Texas Tech University to operate a Tier-3 site for the upcoming LHC experiments at CERN. Transferring large amounts of CMS data using the PhEDEX (Physics Experiment Data Export) file transfer system, development of a remote data quality monitoring station for first pass-analysis and processing the CMS data on a HEP cluster at TTU will be discussed.