Published April 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Deployment of job priority mechanisms in the Italian Cloud of the ATLAS experiment

  • 1. INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Napoli (Italy)
  • 2. INFN Roma I, Piazzale A. Moro 2, Roma (Italy)
  • 3. CERN, Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 4. INFN CNAF, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, Bologna (Italy)
  • 5. INFN Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano (Italy)
  • 6. INFN Lab. Naz. di Frascati, via Enrico Fermi 40, Frascati (Italy)

Description

An optimized use of the Grid computing resources in the ATLAS experiment requires the enforcement of a mechanism of job priorities and of resource sharing among the different activities inside the ATLAS VO. This mechanism has been implemented through the VOViews publication in the information system and the fair share implementation per UNIX group in the batch system. The VOView concept consists of publishing resource information, such as running and waiting jobs, as a function of VO groups and roles. The ATLAS Italian Cloud is composed of the CNAF Tier1 and Roma Tier2, with farms based on the LSF batch system, and the Tier2s of Frascati, Milano and Napoli based on PBS/Torque. In this paper we describe how test and deployment of the job priorities has been performed in the cloud, where the VOMS-based regional group /atlas/it has been created. We show that the VOViews are published and correctly managed by the WMS and that the resources allocated to generic VO users, users with production role and users of the /atlas/it group correspond to the defined share.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/219/7/072001

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
219
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
[10 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
17. international conference on computing in high energy and nuclear physics
Acronym
CHEP09
Dates
21-27 Mar 2009
Place
Prague (Czech Republic)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42040746
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CERN LHC; DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; RESOURCES; TORQUE
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DATA PROCESSING; PROCESSING; PROGRAMMING; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS