| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 245, 2020
24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2019)
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| Article Number | 03010 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | 3 - Middleware and Distributed Computing | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024503010 | |
| Published online | 16 November 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024503010
Managing the ATLAS Grid through Harvester
1
University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America
2
Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
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University of Victoria, Canada
4
University of Oslo, Norway
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Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
6
Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America
7
Iowa State University, United States of America
* Corresponding author: barreiro@uta.edu
† Copyright 2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. Reproduction of this article or parts of it is allowed as specified in the CC-BY-4.0 license.
Published online: 16 November 2020
ATLAS Computing Management has identified the migration of all computing resources to Harvester, PanDA’s new workload submission engine, as a critical milestone for LHC Run 3 and 4. This contribution will focus on the Grid migration to Harvester. We have built a redundant architecture based on CERN IT’s common offerings (e.g. Openstack Virtual Machines and Database on Demand) to run the necessary Harvester and HTCondor services, capable of sustaining the load of O(1M) workers on the Grid per day. We have reviewed the ATLAS Grid region by region and moved as much possible away from blind worker submission, where multiple queues (e.g. single core, multi core, high memory) compete for resources on a site. Instead we have migrated towards more intelligent models that use information and priorities from the central PanDA workload management system and stream the right number of workers of each category to a unified queue while keeping late binding to the jobs. We will also describe our enhanced monitoring and analytics framework. Worker and job information is synchronized with minimal delays to a CERN IT provided ElasticSearch repository, where we can interact with dashboards to follow submission progress, discover site issues (e.g. broken Compute Elements) or spot empty workers. The result is a much more efficient usage of the Grid resources with smart, built-in monitoring of resources.
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