1. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick1 LHCb Grid Activities in UK Grid Prototype and Globus Technical Meeting QMW, 22nd November 2000 Glenn Patrick (RAL)

2. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick2 Aims In June, LHCb formed Grid technical working group to: Initiate and co-ordinate “user” and production activity in this area. Provide practical experience in Grid tools. Lead into longer term LHCb applications. Initially based around UK facilities at RAL and Liverpool, as well as CERN, but other countries/institutes are gradually joining in.  IN2P3, NIKHEF, INFN …

3. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick3 RAL CSF 120 Linux cpu IBM 3494 tape robot LIVERPOOL MAP 300 Linux cpu CERN pcrd25.cern.ch lxplus009.cern.ch RAL (PPD) Bristol Imperial College Oxford GLASGOW/ EDINBURGH “Proto-Tier 2” Initial LHCb-UK “Testbed” Institutes Exists Planned RAL DataGrid Testbed

4. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick4 Initial Architecture Based around existing production facilities (separate Datagrid testbed facilities will eventually exist). Intel PCs running Linux Redhat 6.1 Mixture of batch systems (LSF at CERN, PBS at RAL, FCS at MAP). Globus 1.1.3 everywhere. Standard file transfer tools (eg. globus-rcp, GSIFTP). GASS servers for secondary storage? Java tools for controlling production, bookkeeping, etc. MDS/LDAP for bookkeeping database(s).

5. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick5 LHCb Applications Use existing LHCb code... Distributed Monte-Carlo Production: SICBMCLHCb Simulation Program SICBDST/LHCb Digitsn/Reconstruction Programs Brunel & Gaudi Distributed Analysis: With datasets stored at different centres - eventually.

6. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick6 Interactive Tests Accounts, globus certificates and gridmap entries set up for small group of people at RAL and Liverpool sites. (problems at CERN for external people) Globus 1.1.3 set up at all sites. Managed to remotely submit scripts and run SICBMC executable between sites via... globus-job-run  from CERN to RAL and MAP  from RAL to CERN and MAP  from MAP to CERN and RAL

7. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick7 Batch Tests Mixture of batch systems - LSF at CERN, PBS at RAL, FCS at MAP. LHCb batch jobs remotely run on RAL-CSF Farm (120 Linuxnodes) using PBS (A.Sansum) via... globus-job-submit csflnx01.rl.ac.uk/jobmanager-pbs globus-job-get-output CERN - access to LSF? MAP - last week setting up LHCb software. Need to interface FCS/mapsub to globus?

8. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick8 Data Transfer Data transferred back to originating computer via... globus-rcp Unreliable for large files. Can use a lot of temporary disk space. Limited proxies breaking scripts when running commands in batch. At RAL, now using GSIFTP (uses Globus authentication): Availability of GSI toolkit at other UK sites & CERN? Consistency of user/security interface.

9. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick9 Secondary/Tertiary Storage RAL DataStore (IBM 3494) interfaced to prototype GASS server and accessible via Globus (Tim Folkes) - 30TB tape robot Allows remote access to LHCb tapes (750MB) via pseudo URLs... globus-rcp rs6ktest.cis.rl.ac.uk:/atlasdatastore/lhcb/L42426 myfile globus-url-copy... globus-gass-cache-add... Location of gass_cache can vary with command (server or client side) - space issue for large-scale transfers. Also, can use C API interface from code.

10. 10 MAN SuperJANET Backbone SuperJANET III 155 Mbit/s (SuperJANET IV 2.5Gbit/s) London RAL Campus Univ. Dept MAN Networking Bottlenecks? CERN 100 Mbit/s 34 Mbit/s 622 Mbit/s (March 2001) TEN-155 Need to study/measure for data transfer and replication within UK and to CERN. 622 Mbit/s Schematic only 155 Mbit/s

11. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick11 Data and Code Replication? GDMP(WP2) - Asynchronous replication of Objectivity federations on top of Globus (Stockinger,Samar - CMS). gdmp_replicate_file_get gdmp_publish_catalogue General replication tool for Objectivity, Root & ZEBRA files and integrate Grid-FTP (end January 2001). Available in INFN Installation Toolkit. “Kickstart” & “Update” Kits(WP8) - Installation of experiment environments on cpu farms? (eg. done for CMS production executables). Experiments encouraged to provide for WP8 and WP6 testbed...

12. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick12 Problems/Issues “Seamless” certification and authorisation of all people across all sites (certificates, gridmap files, etc) with common set of tools. Getting people set up on CERN facilities (need defined technical contact). Central to any LHCb grid work. Remote access into various batch systems (testbeds to cure?). Role of w.area filesystems (AFS) & replication (GDMP). But at least we now have some practical user-experience in a “physics” environment. Helped to shakedown UK systems and provide valuable feedback.

13. UK Grid Meeting 22.11.00 Glenn Patrick13 Next? Migrate LHCb production to Linux (mainly NT till now). Start to adapt standard LHCb production scripts to use Globus tools, GDMP(?), etc. Modify book-keeping to make use of LDAP. MDS & access to metadata/services at different sites. Gradually adapt LHCb software to be Grid aware. Try “production style” runs end 2000/start 2001? Expand to include other centres/countries in “LHCb Grid”. Use available production systems and testbeds.