1. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 1 LCG Software Activities in India Rajesh K. Computer Division BARC

2. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 2 DAE-CERN Collaboration on Grid Computing Agreement for collaboration in software development for LCG 5 year period 2003-2007 (inclusive) 50 FTE years Participating DAE institutes: BARC, CAT, VECC, TIFR

3. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 3 Current Projects 3 projects currently underway in the area of Grid Monitoring and Fabric Management GRIDVIEW: A visualization tool for LCG ELFMS: Extremely Large Fabric Management System CC Tracker: Computer Centre Tracker

4. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 4 GRIDVIEW – Visualization Tool for LCG Visualization system for viewing monitoring information from the LCG Dashboard showing different status views for different kinds of information – Site-wise – VO-wise – Etc. Intended for use in GOCs and ROCs but not restricted to that

5. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 5 Gridview Collects monitoring information from different monitoring tools from grid sites using R-GMA as transport – Gridftp monitor – SFT – RB Logs etc. Archival of monitoring information in a central Oracle database at CERN Analysis of this data to generate summaries Visualization of summary data through Web interface and GUI

6. Gridview: Architecture

7. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 7 Gridview: Current GridFTP transfer monitoring – In production use – Display of network throughput and total data transferred Different host/destination VO-wise, Site-wise, Host-wise Current, Hourly, Daily, Monthly etc. – Used during SC3 throughput tests

8. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 8 Gridview: In development Job Status Monitoring – Total number of jobs at grid sites in different states – VO-wise, RB-wise distribution – Site wise job failure rate, utilization etc. Grid Dashboard – Pictorial representation of site status info on a world map

10. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 10 ELFMS: Extremely Large Fabric Management System Participation in CERN Project on ELFMS ELFMS is used to manage and monitor thousands of nodes in the CERN computer centre and other LCG sites Contribution to development and support for ELFMS modules LEMON and QUATTOR

11. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 11 LEMON: LHC Era MONitoring Lemon is a system designed to monitor performance metrics, exceptions & status information of extremely large clusters At CERN it monitors ~2000 nodes, ~70 clusters with ~150 metrics/host producing ~1GB of data. Estimated to monitor up to 10000 nodes A variety of web based views of monitored data for – Sysadmins, managers and users Highly modular architecture allows the integration of user developed sensors for monitoring site-specific metrics.

12. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 12 Contribution to LEMON project TCP based communication between agent and server instead of the current UDP based one. SSL encryption A light weight correlation engine to generate exception metrics and launch fault tolerant actuators in response to an undesired state. This sensor supports multiple metric correlation and mathematical operations between correlated metrics

13. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 13 Quattor Quattor is a tool suite providing automated installation, configuration and management of clusters and farms Highly suitable to install, configure and manage Grid computing clusters correctly and automatically At CERN, currently used to auto manage nodes >2000 with heterogeneous hardware and software applications Centrally configurable & reproducible installations, run time management for functional & security updates to maximize availability

14. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 14 Contribution to Quattor project Testing all new releases Quattor outside CERN. Presently working in the SWRep (Software Repoisitory) part of Quattor. Changing SWRep framework from ssh to SOAP with ssl.

15. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 15 CC Tracker A tool to Visualize the CERN Computer Centre Simplifies management of the CERN Computer Centre for LHC scale operations Allows easy invocation of service management and operational interventions across sets of selected nodes

16. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 16 CC Tracker Functionality Visualize Computer Centre Physical View : Display of all CC rooms with Racks, Disk cabinets, Tape silos, PDUs Logical View: Display Domains, Clusters, Sub clusters & hosts in hierarchical way Manage Hardware: – Add, Move, Rename & Retire operations for a set of machines – Change cluster, update kernel, update OS, shutdown, reboot & set desired state Manage Infrastructure: – Addition/deletion of Rack, Disk Cabinet, Tape Silo, PDU and Tape drive – Updating properties (name, location) – Check power consumption by rack, zone, room & cluster – Check cost by rack, zone, room & cluster

17. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 17 CCTracker Logical & Physical view

18. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 18 Completed Projects SHIVA – Problem Tracking System QoS: Quality of Service Prediction for worker nodes RDBMS backend for POOL LCG-AliEn Storage Element Interface Test Suite for perl harnessing with AliEn

19. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 19 SHIVA Problem Tracking System General purpose bug tracking system for keeping track of bugs, feature and other issues in software development projects SHIVA accepts problem reports from users, routes them to troubleshooters and maintains archives of problems and solutions Generate reports and statistics Implement helpdesk systems for services Used as a problem tracker for SC3 related work

20. SHIVA: Screenshot

21. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 21 QoS: Predicting Quality of Service of Worker nodes Deriving a composite metric for quality of service offered by worker node QoS computed by a correlation engine which takes simple metrics such as load average, free memory and so on as input

22. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 22 RelationalStorageSvc for POOL Designed and Developed the “Relational StorageSvc” module prototype for POOL. Designed the prototype as a plugin in POOL framework. Provided solution for Remote Database connectivity. Implemented interfaces of the POOL Storage Manager for ORACLE backend. Demonstrated the Navigation,Storage and Retrieval of data using ORACLE and the ODBC connectivity option. Tested the cross technology referencing concept of POOL Storage Manager using ROOT and ORACLE, for primitive and referenced data types Courtesy: Anil Rawat, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore

23. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 23 RSSvc’s place in POOL Architecture RDBMS Storage Svc ? Courtesy: Anil Rawat, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore

24. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 24 LCG-AliEn Storage Element Interface Test Bed Installation for Grid Environment: – One central server and two Sites. Installation of Certification Authority Server Installation of GridFTP Library under AliEn – The GridFTP daemon in.ftpd has been used as server and globus-url-copy has been used as client Development of AliEn-SE Interface via GridFTP – These newly developed modules along with necessary GridFTP libraries and changes made in existing AliEn Code have been committed to CVS Server at CERN. Courtesy: Tapas Samanta, VECC, Kolkata

25. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 25 Quality Assurance and Test Environment for AliEn-ARDA Prototype Exploration and Design of Test Scripts using perl. Implementation of Test Scripts for each Individual perl sub- module of AliEn. Individual perl sub-modules of AliEn code were tested for proper functionalities. It Generates a detailed report of the individual tests and maintains a log. Validation of Test-Scripts and Procedures. Testing Modules with perl Harnessing Environment. The Complete Suit was tested at CERN under perl Harnessing Environment for testing AliEn online and generating online consolidated report of the test. Inline Documentation to the extent possible. Courtesy: Tapas Samanta, VECC, Kolkata

26. International Workshop on Large Scale Computing, VECC, Kolkata, Feb 8-10, 2006 26 Acknowledgements Gridview and Shiva team: Phool Chand, Digamber Sonvane, Kislay Bhatt ELFMS, CC Tracker and Qos team: R.S.Mundada, R.Sharma, D.Sarode. C.Murthy Anil Rawat, CAT, Indore T.Samanta, VECC, Kolkata Colleagues from IT Dept., CERN