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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 | 03032 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | 3 - Middleware and Distributed Computing | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024503032 | |
| Published online | 16 November 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024503032
CRIC: Computing Resource Information Catalogue as a unified topology system for a large scale, heterogeneous and dynamic computing infrastructure
1
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
2
Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
3
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Published online: 16 November 2020
CRIC is a high-level information system which provides flexible, reliable and complete topology and configuration description for a large scale distributed heterogeneous computing infrastructure. CRIC aims to facilitate distributed computing operations for the LHC experiments and consolidate WLCG topology information. It aggregates information coming from various low-level information sources and complements topology description with experimentspecific data structures and settings required by the LHC VOs in order to exploit computing resources.
Being an experiment-oriented but still experiment-independent information middleware, CRIC offers a generic solution, in the form of a suitable framework with appropriate interfaces implemented, which can be successfully applied on the global WLCG level or at the level of a particular LHC experiment. For example there are CRIC instances for CMS[11] and ATLAS[10]. CRIC can even be used for a special task. For example, a dedicated CRIC instance has been built to support transfer tests performed by DOMA Third Party Copy working group. Moreover, extensibility and flexibility of the system allow CRIC to follow technology evolution and easily implement concepts required to describe new types of computing and storage resources.
The contribution describes the overall CRIC architecture, the plug-in based implementation of the CRIC components as well as recent developments and future plans.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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