Research and Exploit of Resource Sharing Strategy at IHEP

Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

^* email: jiangxw@ihep.ac.cn
^** email: shijy@ihep.ac.cn
^*** email: zoujh@ihep.ac.cn
^**** email: huqb@ihep.ac.cn
^† email: duran@ihep.ac.cn
^‡ email: sunzy@ihep.ac.cn

Published online: 17 September 2019

Abstract

At IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), computing resources are contributed by different experiments including BES, JUNO, DYW, HXMT, etc. The resources were divided into different partitions to satisfy the dedicated experiment data processing requirements. IHEP had a local Torqu&Maui cluster with 50 queues serving for above 10 experiments. The separated resource partitions leaded to imbalance resource load. In a typical situation, BES resource partition was quite busy without free slot but still with lots of jobs in idle, while JUNO resources are free and wasted seriously.

After moving resources from Torque&Maui to HTCondor in 2016, job scheduling efficiency has been improved a lot. In order to balance the imbalance resource load, we designed an efficient sharing strategy to improve the overall resourceutilization. We created an unified pool shared by all experiments. For each experiment, resources are divided into two parts: dedicated resource and sharing resource. The slots in dedicated resource only run jobs from its own experiment, and the slots in sharing resource are shared by jobs from all experiments. Default ratio of dedicated resource to sharing resource is 1:4. To maximize the sharing effectiveness, the ratio is dynamically adjusted between 0:5 and 4:1 based on the number of jobs submitted by each experiment.

We have developed a central control system to decide how many resources can be allocated to each experiment group. This system is implemented at two sides: server side and client side. A management database is built at server side, which is storing resource, group and experiment information. Once the sharing ratio needs to be adjusted, resource group will be changed and updated into database. The resource group information is published to the server buffer in real-time. The client periodically pulls resource group information from server buffer via https protocol And resource scheduling configuration at client side is changed based on the resource group information. With this method, share ratio can be modified and deployed dynamically.

Sharing strategy is implemented with HTCondor. ClassAd mechanism and accounting-group in HTCondor facilitate to utilizethe sharing strategy at IHEP computing cluster. With the sharing strategy, resource usage has been improved dramatically.