1. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 CMS Status and Plans Progress towards GridPP milestones Workload management (ICSTM) Monitoring (Brunel) Data management (Bristol) See also separate talks tomorrow by Dave Colling, Owen Maroney All-hands demo See talk/demonstration today by Sarah Marr & Dave Colling Future plans Data challenges in 03/04 Network performance issues

2. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Production computing Phil Lewis (ICST&M, London): Workload Management Contributed to the multistage MC production Key contribution to current production MC Total number of MC events produced/processed in millions for Q1 and Q2 in 2002

3. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Production computing Dave Colling (ICST&M, London): Workload Management Contributed to the Multistage MC production This includes the Objectivity part and the ability to run on sites that have no CMS software installed (in which case it does a DAR installation first). This work is only prevented from being very effective because of the GASS Cache Bug. Sheffield demo of the CMS portal Two stages of the MC production ran during the demo Participated in the CMS production tools grid review. This is working towards a unified grid approach for CMS grids in Europe and the States.

4. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Web portal Sarah Marr (ICST&M, London): Workload management

5. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Manpower report Barry MacEvoy (Imperial College London): CMS WP8, 0.5 FTE Activities Installation of LCFG server to build and configure testbed nodes on CMS farm Some work on multi-stage Monte Carlo production R-GMA interface to BOSS (in collaboration with Nebrensky et al.) Preparation of CMS demo and associated literature Data analysis architecture design… just started

6. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Adding RGMA to BOSS Henry Nebrensky (Brunel): Monitoring, 0.5 + 0.3 FTE BOSS is the job submission and tracking system used by CMS. BOSS is not “GRID enabled” Using EDG (WP3) RGMA release 2 Data is currently sent back directly from WN to the BOSS database on the UI This is being replaced by an RGMA producer and consumer Status today is Operating an RGMA schema and registry server A mock BOSS job in C++ for test purposes exists Currently integrating this code into BOSS

7. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Testbed, Data Management Owen Maroney (University of Bristol): Data Management Testbed Site Operating with EDG1.2 Testbed in GridPP VO Hosting GridPP VO Replica Catalogue service Data Management Testing of GDMP, Replica Catalogue and Replica Manager services between Bristol, RAL and CERN Regional Data-Centre milestone requirements: To replicate >10TB CMS data between CERN and RAL in >17k files using Grid tools Store on Datastore MSS at RAL To be accessible anywhere on the Grid through the Replica Manager services

8. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Grid Object Access Tim Barrass (University of Bristol) Entered post 1 September Implementation and testing of the new persistency layer for CMS. Testing / rollout at T1 and interface to Grid services the main interest Using the POOL framework under development. Also associated with BaBar (50%); will help with immediate developments of their data storage model.

9. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Data Challenge 2003-4 DC04 is a crucial milestone for CMS computing An end-to-end test of our offline computing system at 25% scale Simulates 25Hz data recording @ 2.10 33 luminosity, for one month Tests software, hardware, networks, organisation The first step in the real scale-up to the exploitation phase Data will be directly used in preparation of Physics TDR The steps: Generate simulated data through worldwide production (‘DC03’) Copy raw digitised data to CERN Tier-0 ‘Play back’ through the entire computing system - T0, 2 or 3 protoT1’s operational (US, UK, …), many T2s. Analyses, calibrations, DQM checks performed at T2, T3 centres Grid m’ware is an important part of the computing system

10. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Data Challenge 2003-4 DC03 in the UK (starts July 03, five months) Plan to produce ~50TB of GEANT4 data at T1 and T2 sites, starting July ’03 All data stored at RAL: this means 60Mb/s continuously into the RAL datastore for 4-5 months Data digitised at RAL with full background; 30TB of digis shipped to CERN at 1TB/day (>100Mb/s continuously over WAN) New persistency layer (POOL?) used throughout DC04 in the UK (Feb ’04) ~30 TB transferred to Tier-1 in one month (100Mb/s continuous) Data replicated to Tier-2 sites upon demand Full analysis framework in place at Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-3 sites Some very serious technical challenges here The work starts now; CMS milestones oriented accordingly If Grid tools are to be fully used, external projects must deliver

11. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Network Performance Networks are a big issue All Grid computing is reliant upon high-performance networks But: data transfer was a bottleneck in previous data challenges Not through lack of infrastructure – we just don’t know how to use the network to its full capability (it is highly non-trivial) CMS peak utilisation of the 1Gbit/s+ b/w RAL -> CERN is <100Mbit/s Fast data replication underlies the success of DC04 Some initial progress in this area in 2002 BaBar, CMS (+?) using smart(er) transfer tools with good results Contacts made with PPNCG / WP7 Discussion at last EB/TB session CMS, BaBar, CDF/D0 talks at last week’s PPNCG meeting Starting to get a feel for where the bottlenecks are Most often in the local infrastructure

12. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Networks - future requirements Where now? CMS needs a substantial improvement in data handling capability and throughput to CERN, US by mid-2003 All experiments will eventually face these problems Strong expertise in storage and networks exists within the UK and elsewhere – we should use it First steps: Practical real-world tests on the production network from the UK Tier-1/A to UK, CERN, US, with experts in attendance Compare with best case results from ‘tuned’ setup Provide dedicated test servers at UK T1, T2 sites so that we can find the bottlenecks Will need to be highly-specified machines, and will need system management support at RAL Work to see how this relates to the SE architecture, and test Must balance flexibility / robustness with throughput

13. CMS Report – GridPP Collaboration Meeting V Peter Hobson, Brunel University16/9/2002 Summary All three UK sites working in a coherent fashion Significant progress in all areas UK has made a major contribution to production MC for CMS Bristol now hosts the VO replica catalogue Contributed to the “Hands On” meeting All tasks are currently on target to meet their milestones. BUT Major Data Challenges coming up in 2003 and 2004 Technical challenges in efficient use of WAN capacity