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Discussing the role and status of the Spanish ATLAS Tier-2 team in the ATLAS Experiment and Medical Physics data analysis, including infrastructure growth, user support, and project timelines.
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Status and Plans of the Spanish ATLAS TIER-2 ( ES-ATLAS-T2) WORKSHOP on ‘GRID Computing and e-Science: Data Analysis of ATLAS Experiment and Medical Physics’ Tier2 Team: G. Amorós, A. Fernández, S. González de la Hoz, A. Lamas, E. Oliver, J. Salt, J. Sánchez, M. Villaplana Presented by : José F. Salt Cairols 4-6 th October 2010
Overview 1.- The Spanish ATLAS Tier-2 2.- The Role of the ES-ATLAS-T2 within the ATLAS Computing Model 3.- Response of the ES-ATLAS-T2 at the start of LHC 4.- The ES-ATLAS –T2 and the Integration of the Morocco’s Tier-3 5.- Conclusions and perspectives
1.- The Spanish ATLAS TIER-2 • The ATLAS distributed TIER-2 is conceived as a Computing Project for ATLAS experiment. Its main goals are: • Enable Physics Analysis for all ATLAS Users and, in particular, for the Spanish ATLAS users • Continuous production of ATLAS MC events • To contribute to ATLAS + LHC Computing Common Tasks • Sustainable growth of infrastructure according to the scheduled ATLAS ramp-up and stable operation • To provide the User Support for the Spanish ATLAS physicists • List of ‘Tier-2’ related projects in chronological order: • ‘Acción Especial’ (2000-2001) • LCG- oriented project (2002-2004) • ATLAS Tier-2 project (Development & construction): 2005-2007 (2 years) • ATLAS Tier-2 project (phase I): 2008-2010 ( 3 years ) • ATLAS Tier-2 project (phase II): 2011-2013 (3 years) I + D Service Infrast. Recently awarded
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid) Instituto de Física de Altas Energías (Barcelona) Instituto de Física Corpuscular (Valencia) IFAE Deployed Equipment: CPU = 10.400 HS06 Disk = 1045TBytes UAM IFIC Human Resources: 14 FTE (as of Sept. 2010)
Update of the CPD • 2009 has been a tough year: • IFIC a big update of the CPD Present view of the IFIC CPD Details of the Renovation work of the IFIC CPD (June 2009) Basedin SUN X4500 + X4540 LUSTRE V1.8 View of the Storage Resources
Table : List of the active Tier-2 personnel and the commitments (as of 31 May 2010) The underlined names are payed by the project funds Names with asterisc(s) are contracted by the Program of Support Techician (Tecnico de Apoyo). A. Lamas is not included in the Scientific members of the project
Framing the Tier-2 project in ATLAS • UAM: • Construction and Commissioning of the ATLAS ElectromagneticEndCapCalorimeter. • Calibration of the ATLAS ElectromagneticCalorimeter. • ATLAS Physics: Higgssearchthrough 4 leptonsdecaymode • IFIC: • Construction and Commissioning of the ATLAS HadronicCalorimeter (TileCal) • Construction and Commissioning of the ATLAS SCT-Fwd. • Alignment of theInner Detector • ATLAS Physics: b taggingalgorithmsforeventselection; MC studies of differentprocessbeyond SM ( Exotics, SUSY, Little Higgs and Extra Dimensionsmodels); Top Physics, HiggsSearches. • IFAE: • Construction and Commissioning of ATLAS HadronicCalorimeter (TileCal) • Development and Deployment of the ATLAS HighLevelTrigger: secondlevel Tau trigger software, operation (EventFilterFarm); commisioning of eventselection software, tau & jet trigger. • ATLAS Physics: TileCalCalibration, Reconstruction and Calibration of Jet/Tau/MissingTransverseEnergy, SUSY searches, Standard Modelprocesses, ChargedHiggs.
2.- The role of the ES-ATLAS-T2 within the ATLAS Computing Model > 90% Prob (3 sites down) ≈ = 0.0001 Reliability = Uptime / (Total time - Scheduled Downtime - Time_status_was_UNKNOWN) Prob (1 site down) ≈ 0.05 Availability = Uptime / (Total time - Time_status_was_UNKNOWN)
Evolution of the T2 Resources April’2010
Evolution of ALL ATLAS T-2 including the pledged already delivered plus the Estimated resources since 2010 onwards (numbers are cumulative): Spanish ATLAS T-2 assuming a contribution of a 5% to the whole effort: Pledges 2011-12 New Project 2012: Preliminary Estimates Prov. By ATLAS 2013: Preliminary Estimated By us 2010: Official requirements 2011: Official requirements
ES-ATLAS-T2 Activity Groups: • SA: System Administrators • CO: Cloud and T2 Operation • T3 : Support T3 • US: User Support • AT: ATLAS Computing Tasks • PM: Operation and Project Management User Support (US) • Thenumber of ATLAS end-usersisramping-up fast • Physicistshavedifferentprofiles • T2 projectprovidetheSupportto he Spanish ATLAS end-users • The US include: • Certificates, • Submitjobs • File transfer • Answerquestionsabout ATLAS • Software • Tosolveproblemsusingthe T2 and T3 infrastructure • Toorganizetutorials
Support to T3 • Thesame T2 sites host the ATLAS physicistswhoneedaninfrastructuretoperformthelaststages of thePhysicsAnalysis • Experience of the T2 staffisbeingusedtobuild and maintainsuchaninfrastructure (Tier3) in a properwaytofullfilltherequirements • Thetechnicalworkincludesthedesign and maintainance of a storagesystem, of a GRID-typecomputingfacility and of a systemforparallesprocessing ( like PROOF) • Allthesesystemsmustbe compatible withthe T2
DistributedAnalysis • ATLAS distributed analysis in the ES-T2 • Two front-ends were used: Ganga and Panda • Differ in the way they interact with the user and the Grid resources • Analysis on collision events performed on the ES-T2 resources fall in two categories: • Detector and Combined performance • Physics Analysis • Typical Analysis • First stage is to submit a job to the Grid (Distributed analysis) • The output files will be stored in the corresponding Tier2 storage • Later the output files can be retrieved for a further analysis on the local facilities of the institute.
Data Management Tier0 CERN Tier1 10 centers Tier2 several centers Tier1 10 centers Raw 3 replicas Raw ESD ESD 10 replicas dESD AOD AOD 13 replicas dAOD
Access to the data • Jobs run where the data are located. • User can ask for a replica in other site. Tier2 Dataset Job Tier2 'A' DaTRI Dataset Tier2 'B' Replica Job
ATLAS Analysis Types • Analysis with different inputs • Output from storage site to user local facility (DQ2 or DaTRI) Tier1/2 Raw ESD dESD Job Ntuple Ntuple Ntuple Detector and combined performance Tier1/2 AOD dAOD Job DPD DPD Physics Analysis
4.- The ES-ATLAS-T2 and the integration of the Morocco’s T3 (Mo-T3) • From the point of view of the Infrastructure: to establish and maintain a Tier-3 in Morocco supported by CNRST • The NREN is also maintained by the CNSRT (Marwan) • Period of task identification (February-June 2010). • it is a stand-alone T3 with important differences wrt the IFIC Tier-3 • Steps in the integration of the Morocco’s T3 • Evaluation of the usage of the Morocco’s T3 • Memorandum of understanding for the collaboration between the ES-ATLAS-T2 snd the M-T3 • To ask for the inclusion of the M.T3 in the ToA • To check the advantages obtained
Tier-2 Tier-1 MSU CIEMAT IFCA UB Cambridge Budapest Prague Taipei TRIUMF UAM IFIC IFAE Legnaro USC Krakow NIKHEF small centres desktops portables RAL IN2P3 Tier-3 FNAL CNAF FZK PIC ICEPP BNL UAM-T3 UAM-T3 IFIC-T3 IFAE-T3 Morocco-T3 5
Main objective: to include the Morocco T3 in the ‘Tiers of ATLAS’: • ‘Tiers of ATLAS’: Joint effort for managing the ATLAS DDM (Distributed Data Management) for the Tiers of ATLAS (ToA). • The ToA describes all storages used for reading and writing ATLAS official data, their properties, transfer tools, local catalogues as well as the topology and associations between sites. • Data transfer and data access • To take profit of DDM • Procedure To finish the process: • Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) • To have the green light from Spanish Authorities • To inform PiC (Spanish Tier-1) evaluation and inclusion in the ‘Tiers of ATLAS list’ • Requirements for ATLAS Computing : space tokens (MCDisk, DATAdisk) • See example of Valparaiso • To add the M-T3 to the ToA list
5.- Conclusions and Perspectives Fromthe Tier-2 Project point of view • This project falls entirely within the period of ATLAS as an running experiment • Changes to a more ‘transversal operative point of view’ • The Transition from Operational mode with Simulated Data to the Real Data Operational mode has been completed . It works without major problems • Strong improvement of reliability/availability • Infrastructure: Strengthen monitoring, to optimize the access to LUSTRE and dCACHE • Computing shifts and Core Computing tasks are becoming a no-negligeble task (an activity task devoted to this activity) • User Support: more effort is needed to get a more efficient system • Distributed Analysis: the present status is not ‘the end of the story’, DA is evolving. • Interactive Analysis: to provide a stable PROOF facility • Perspectives • The follow-up expressed in the conclusions • Sustainability of the Infrastructure: Resource Renewal, personnel, … • WLCG interaction/framework in the NGI and EGI (?)
From the Rabat-Valencia Collaboration point of vieW: • CONCLUSIONS: • We are delayed wrt the previous plans in the ATLAS GRID collaboration management side; • Emphasis has been in HEP and Medical Physics interaction between our two groups : Very positive synergy! • HEP and Medical Physics have very good scientific outcomes • From the e-Science point of view a large scope has been obtained and it is OK!! • PERSPECTIVES: • … we need to speed up the process to include the Morocco’s T3 in the ToA list and this achievement will give us a better interplay between our institutions • Non-presential meetings (video or audioconference) will be needed to discuss the evolution of the T3-T2 issues -