Status of the Australian Tier 2 Facility and Plans for SC4 Marco La Rosa School of Physics, The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia mlarosa@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) in Australia University of Melbourne University of Sydney 4 Academic Staff 5 Research Fellows 12 PhD students Belle: KEK, Japan ATLAS: CERN, Switzerland Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 who we are...
Australian HEP Data Grid Team Physicists: ● High Energy Physics: University of Melbourne ● High Energy Physics: University of Sydney Computer Scientists: ● GRIDS Lab: University of Melbourne ● Computer Science: University of Adelaide High Performance Computing: ● Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) ● Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) ● South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC) ● Advanced Computing and Communications Centre (ac3) ● Advanced Research Computing (ARC) ● Australian National University Supercomputing Facility (ANUSF) Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 who we are...
Some of the people... Advanced Research Computing, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne ● Dirk van der Knijff, Bryan Hellyer, Rob Sturrock Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), Melbourne ● David Bannon, Damon Smith, Chris Samuel, Chris Kendrick, Graham Jenkins, Brett Pemberton South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC), Adelaide ● Paul Coddington, Gerson Galang, Grant Ward Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC), Canberra ● Stephen McMahon, Ben Evans, Jason Ozolins, John Smylie Advanced Computing and Communications Centre (ac3), Sydney ● Youzhen Cheng, Frank Crawford APAC National Grid Program ● Rhys Francis, John O'Callaghan, Erica Stojanovich Australian Advanced Research NETwork (AARNET) ● George McLaughlin Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 who we are...
Grid Activities Belle ● Introducing Grid techniques to: ● Belle Physics analysis ● Monte Carlo generation Atlas ● Participated in Atlas Data Challenges ● Deploying an LCG Infrastructure in Australia ● Preparing for SC4 Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) "Providing the advanced computing and grid infrastructure for eResearch" Infrastructure / Applications Astronomy, Computational chemistry, Geosciences, Bioinformatics, Earth System Science, High Energy Physics Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Grid experience...
Belle Analysis Data Grid Grid Scheduler: GQSched ● Task description, resource modelling, brokering, scheduling, dispatch ● Globus 2 gatekeepers, LCG-2 Compute Element ● Parametric sweep ● Single job description, many job submissions ● SRB interface ● Belle data available through an SRB federation ● Data staging (3 models) ● Handled within job during execution (Uni Melb HPC) ● Handled by a separate process on another job manager (VPAC) ● Handled by a separate process on another PBS queue (SAPAC) Belle Analysis Software Framework (BASF) ● enabled to read / write Grid URIs directly, able to stream data across a network ● New IO module for BASF: fpdagrid.so Belle Testbed ● IBM Asia-Pacific - 5 machines: Quad CPU 2.6 GHz, 70 GB disk, ● 5 sites: Melbourne x 2, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Grid experience...
The Nordugrid Experience We have participated in ATLAS Data Challenges 1 and 2 ● As a member of Nordugrid!! ● Data challenges were ran by the Advanced Research Computing group at The University of Melbourne Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Grid experience...
Australian LCG Deployment 3 sites on the APAC National Grid Some Deployed as Xen Virtual Machines LCG-2 Installation Course: KEK Data Grid Workshop, 2005 Prof. Watase, Dr. Iwai: KEK-CC Prof. Sakamoto: U. Tokyo Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Grid experience...
Australian Tier 2 – Future Plans ● a modest selected sample of Event Summary Data (ESD) ● one third of the available Analysis Object Data (AOD) ● a full copy of data TAG sample ● Physics Group Derived Physics Data (DPD) samples according to the groups' interest based on the LCG MoU 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Disk (TB) 107 336 566 887 1208 1529 CPU(kSI2k) 243 703 1064 1739 2309 2879 Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
Australian Tier 2 – Future Plans Distributed Tier 2 ● Hardware infrastructure hosted by one of the HPC facilities in addition to... ● LCG (middleware) Infrastructure deployed at partner computing facilities also contributing resources Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
Australian Tier 2 – Initial Contribution ...to begin with, we're building a prototype Tier 2 charm cluster 40 CPUs, 1.6TB Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
Australian Tier 2 – Initial Contribution ...but why a prototype? Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
Funding and plans Coming to the end of a 5 year round of funding Applying for the next round of funding: do not have funding for the real facility yet Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
The Big Bad Internet – at 10 Gb/s! 622 Mb / s 10 Gb / s Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
Issues and concerns We understand the technology. We have the skills to deploy and manage it. We know how to use it. Now we need to apply those skills. We need to develop an understanding of the ISSUES WE WILL ENCOUNTER in a real, live, production environment. Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
Timeline Site Functional Tests ASGCC Min Tsai, Jason Shih, Shuting Liao, Jinny Chien NOW Marco La Rosa ISGC 2006 Tier 2...
The End Thank You Marco La Rosa mlarosa@physics.unimelb.edu.au http://epp.ph.unimelb.edu.au
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