Published 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

Updates on usage of the Czech national HPC center

  • 1. Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague, 18221 (Czech Republic)
  • 2. Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Břehová 7, Prague, 115 19 (Czech Republic)

Description

The distributed computing of the ATLAS experiment at LHC has used computing resources of the Czech national HPC center IT4Innovations for several years. The submission system is based on ARC-CEs installed at the Czech Tier2 site (praguelcg2). Recent improvements of this system will be discussed here. First, there was a migration of the ARC-CE from version 5 to 6 which improves the reliability and scalability. A shared filesystem built on top of sshfs 3.7 no longer represents performance bottleneck. It provided an order of magnitude better transfer performance. New Singularity containers with full software stack can easily fit default resource limits on the IT4I cluster filesystem. A new submission system, allowing sequential running of payloads in one job, was set and adapted to HPC's environment, improving usage on worker nodes with very high number of cores. Overall, the whole infrastructure provides significant contribution to resources provided by praguelcg2.

Availability note (English)

Available from https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2021/05/epjconf_chep2021_02008.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/83572fec12c84ea9b5a58b03a776f03e

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
EPJ. Web of Conferences
Journal Volume
251
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
2100-014X

Conference

Title
25. International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Acronym
CHEP 2021
Dates
17-21 May 2021
Place
Geneva (Switzerland)

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
53090994
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ATLAS DETECTOR; CERN LHC; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SIMULATION; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS