1. Experience with ATLAS Data Challenge Production on the U.S. Grid Testbed Kaushik De University of Texas at Arlington CHEP03 March 27, 2003

2. K. De CHEP03 2 Multi-purpose experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN 14 GeV c.m. pp collisions starting in 2007 Physics: Higgs, SUSY, new searches... Petabytes/year of data analyzed by >2000 physicists worldwide - need the GRID The ATLAS Experiment

3. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 3 U.S. ATLAS Grid Testbed  BNL - U.S. Tier 1, 2000 nodes, 5% ATLAS, 10 TB  LBNL - pdsf cluster, 400 nodes, 5% ATLAS, 1 TB  Boston U. - prototype Tier 2, 64 nodes  Indiana U. - prototype Tier 2, 32 nodes  UT Arlington - 20 nodes  Oklahoma U. - 12 nodes  U. Michigan - 10 nodes  ANL - test nodes  SMU - 6 nodes  UNM - new site

4. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 4 U.S. Testbed Goals  Deployment  Set up grid infrastructure and ATLAS software  Test installation procedures (PACMAN)  Development & Testing  Grid applications - GRAT, Grappa, Magda...  Other software - monitoring, packaging...  Run Production  For U.S. physics data analysis and tests  Main focus - ATLAS Data Challenges  Simulation, pileup  Reconstruction  Connection to GRID projects  GriPhyN - Globus, Condor, Chimera… use & test  iVDGL - VDT, glue schema testbed, Worldgrid testbed, demos… use and test  EDG, LCG… testing & deployment

5. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 5 ATLAS Data Challenges DC’s - Generate and analyse simulated data (see talk by Gilbert Poulard on Tuesday)  Original Goals (Nov 15, 2001)  Test computing model, its software, its data model, and to ensure the correctness of the technical choices to be made  Data Challenges should be executed at the prototype Tier centres  Data challenges will be used as input for a Computing Technical Design Report due by the end of 2003 (?) and for preparing a MoU  Current Status  Goals are evolving as we gain experience  Sequence of increasing scale & complexity  DC0 (completed), DC1 (underway)  DC2, DC3, and DC4 planned  Grid deployment and testing major part of DC’s

6. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 6 GRAT Software  GRid Applications Toolkit  Used for U.S. Data Challenge production  Based on Globus, Magda & MySQL  Shell & Python scripts, modular design  Rapid development platform  Quickly develop packages as needed by DC  Single particle production  Higgs & SUSY production  Pileup production & data management  Reconstruction  Test grid middleware, test grid performance  Modules can be easily enhanced or replaced by Condor-G, EDG resource broker, Chimera, replica catalogue, OGSA… (in progress)

7. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 7 GRAT Execution Model 1. Resource Discovery 2. Partition Selection 3. Job Creation 4. Pre-stage 5. Batch Submission 6. Job Parameterization 7. Simulation 8. Post-stage 9. Cataloging 10. Monitoring DC1 Prod. (UTA) Remote Gatekeeper Replica (local) MAGDA (BNL) Param (CERN) Batch Execution scratch 1,4,5,10 2 3 4 5 6 7 89

8. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 8 Middleware Evolution of U.S. Applications Used in current production software (GRAT & Grappa) Tested successfully (not yet used for large scale production) Under development and testing Tested for simulation (will be used for large scale reconstruction)

9. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 9 Databases used in GRAT  MySQL databases central to GRAT  Production database  define logical job parameters & filenames  track job status, updated periodically by scripts  Data management (Magda)  file registration/catalogue  grid based file transfers  Virtual Data Catalogue  simulation job definition  job parameters, random numbers  Metadata catalogue (AMI)  post-production summary information  data provenance  Similar scheme being considered ATLAS- wide by the Grid Technical Board

10. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 10 DC1 Production on U.S. Grid  August/September 2002  3 week DC1 production run using GRAT  Generated 200,000 events, using ~ 1,300 CPU days, 2000 files, 100 GB storage at 4 sites  December 2002  Generated 75k SUSY and Higgs events for DC1  Total DC1 files generated and stored > 500 GB, total CPU used >1000 CPU days in 4 weeks  January 2002  More SUSY sample  Started pile-up production on the grid, both high and low luminosity, for 1-2 months at all sites  February/March 2002  Discovered bug in software (non grid part)  Regenerating all SUSY, Higgs & pile-up samples  ~15TB data, 15k files, 2M events, 10k CPU days

11. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 11 DC1 Production Examples Each production run requires development & deployment of new software at selected sites

12. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 12 DC1 Production Experience  Grid paradigm works, using Globus  Opportunistic use of existing resources, run anywhere, from anywhere, by anyone...  Successfully exercised grid middleware with increasingly complex tasks  Simulation: create physics data from pre-defined parameters and input files, CPU intensive  Pile-up: mix ~2500 min-bias data files into physics simulation files, data intensive  Reconstruction: data intensive, multiple passes  Data tracking: multiple steps, one -> many -> many more mappings  Tested grid applications developed by U.S.  For example, PACMAN (Saul Youssef - BU)  Magda (see talk by Wensheng Deng)  Virtual Data Catalogue (see Poster by P. Nevski)  GRAT (this talk), GRAPPA (see talk by D. Engh)

13. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 13 Grid Quality of Service  Anything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong  During 18 days of grid production (in August), every system died at least once  Local experts were not always be accessible  Examples: scheduling machines died 5 times (thrice power failure, twice system hung), Network outages multiple times, Gatekeeper died at every site at least 2-3 times  Three databases used - production, magda and virtual data. Each died at least once!  Scheduled maintenance - HPSS, Magda server, LBNL hardware, LBNL Raid array…  Poor cleanup, lack of fault tolerance in Globus  These outages should be expected on the grid - software design must be robust  We managed > 100 files/day (~80% efficiency) in spite of these problems!

14. March 27, 2003 K. De CHEP03 14 Conclusion  The largest (>10TB) grid based production in ATLAS was done by U.S. testbed  Grid production is possible, but not easy right now - need to harden middleware, need higher level services  Many tools are missing - monitoring, operations center, data management  Requires iterative learning process, with rapid evolution of software design  Pile-up was a major data management challenge on the grid - moving >0.5 TB/day  Successful so far  Continuously learning and improving  Many more DC’s coming up!