Dynamic Resource Allocation with the arcControlTower

Distributed computing resources available for high-energy physics research are becoming less dedicated to one type of workflow and researchers workloads are increasingly exploiting modern computing technologies such as parallelism. The current pilot job management model used by many experiments reli...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2015-12, Vol.664 (6), p.62015
Main Authors: Filip i, A, Cameron, D, Nilsen, J K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer networks
Distributed processing
Physics
Resource allocation
Workflow
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Summary:Distributed computing resources available for high-energy physics research are becoming less dedicated to one type of workflow and researchers workloads are increasingly exploiting modern computing technologies such as parallelism. The current pilot job management model used by many experiments relies on static dedicated resources and cannot easily adapt to these changes. The model used for ATLAS in Nordic countries and some other places enables a flexible job management system based on dynamic resources allocation. Rather than a fixed set of resources managed centrally, the model allows resources to be requested on the fly. The ARC Computing Element (ARC-CE) and ARC Control Tower (aCT) are the key components of the model. The aCT requests jobs from the ATLAS job management system (PanDA) and submits a fully-formed job description to ARC-CEs. ARC-CE can then dynamically request the required resources from the underlying batch system. In this paper we describe the architecture of the model and the experience of running many millions of ATLAS jobs on it.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/664/6/062015