PROOF-based analysis on the ATLAS Grid facilities: first experience with the PoD/PanDa plugin

In the ATLAS computing model Grid resources are managed by PanDA, the system designed for production and distributed analysis, and data are stored under various formats in ROOT files. End-user physicists have the choice to use either the ATHENA framework or directly ROOT, that provides users the pos...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2014-01, Vol.513 (3), p.32102-8, Article 032102
Main Authors: Vilucchi, E, Salvo, A De, Donato, C Di, Nardo, R Di, Doria, A, Ganis, G, Manafov, A, Mancini, G, Mazza, S, Preltz, F, Rebatto, D, Salvucci, A, Pineda, A R Sanchez
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Language:English
Subjects:
Computation
Dynamical systems
Dynamics
End users
Interfaces
Local area networks
Physicists
Physics
Proving
Resource management
Resources management
Roots
Wide area networks
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Summary:In the ATLAS computing model Grid resources are managed by PanDA, the system designed for production and distributed analysis, and data are stored under various formats in ROOT files. End-user physicists have the choice to use either the ATHENA framework or directly ROOT, that provides users the possibility to use PROOF to exploit the computing power of multi-core machines or to dynamically manage analysis facilities. Since analysis facilities are, in general, not dedicated to PROOF only, PROOF-on-Demand (PoD) is used to enable PROOF on top of an existing resource management system. In a previous work we investigated the usage of PoD to enable PROOF-based analysis on Tier-2 facilities using the PoD/gLite plug-in interface. In this paper we present the status of our investigations using the recently developed PoD/PanDA plug-in to enable PROOF and a real end-user ATLAS physics analysis as payload. For this work, data were accessed using two different protocols: XRootD and file protocol. The former in the site where the SRM interface is Disk Pool Manager (DPM) and the latter where the SRM interface is StoRM with GPFS file system. We will first describe the results of some benchmark tests we run on the ATLAS Italian Tier-1 and Tier-2s sites and at CERN. Then, we will compare the results of different types of analysis, comparing performances accessing data in relation to different types of SRM interfaces and accessing data with XRootD in the LAN and in the WAN using the ATLAS XROOTD storage federation infrastructure.
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032102