DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Distributed Computing in Physics Parallel Geant4 Simulation in Medical and Space Science Applications Jakub T. Moscicki, CERN/IT Maria G. Pia, INFN Genova Alfonso Mantero, INFN Genova Susanna Guatelli, INFN Genova

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Applications of Distributed Technology and GRID Examples of interdisciplinary applications Geant4 simulation and analysis speed-up factor ~ 30 times DIANE R&D Project: application-oriented gateway to GRID developed for LHC CERN IT/API – INFN Geant4/LowEnergy collaboration cern.ch/diane LHC: ntuple analysis and simulation radiotherapy: brachytherapy, IMRT space missions: ESA Bepi Colombo, LISA

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Why Distributed Computing? share limited hardware resources lend when not needed, borrow when needed optimize load of CPUs avoid redundancy: save common disk space distributed collaborations e.g. LHC community share and manage access to distributed data replication, security, consistency move processing close to available resources e.g. data process in parallel

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 What is GRID ? global, unified resource access system a la WWW: easy and universal access virtual organisations over administrative boundaries black-box: sumbit here, run anywhere world of virtual happiness but... in pratice to work efficiently and correctly every generic system must be customized to match specific experiment's needs and their configuration technology in constant evolution mature and universally accessible GRID still to come

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 DIstributed ANalysis Environment parallel cluster processing make fine tuning and customization easy transparently using GRID technology accessible via a Wide Area Network application independent

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 DIstributed ANalysis Environment hide complex details of underlying technology easy to use dedicated to master-worker model most of typical jobs: ntuple analysis, event level distributed simulation

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Preliminary Benchmark Results

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Standard Geant4 Simulation the goal of simulation: study the experimental configuration and the physics reach for Bepi Colombo ESA mission to Mercury requires high statistics  many events 20 Mio events ~ 3 hours up to 100 Mio events might be useful estimated time ~16 hours analysis implemented with AIDA/Anaphe

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Distributed Geant4 Simulation increase performance shift from batch to semi-interactive simulation user can study the results of the simulation faster and more often generate more events – debug simulation faster correctness and ease of use preserve reproducability of the results parallel should look as local to users main goals:

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Benchmarking Environment parallel cluster configuration 70 redhat 61 nodes 7 Intel STL2 (2 x PIII 1GHz, 512MB) 31 ASUS P2B-D ( 2 x PIII 600MHz, 512MB) 15 Celsius 620 (2 x PIII, 550MHz, 512MB) the rest – Kayak 450 Mhz (2 x PIII, 450Mhz, 128MB) reference sequential machine pcgeant2 (2x Xeon 1700Mhz, 1GB) notice different CPU speeds and memory size

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Scalability Test – Job Time not normalized execution time: average gain 15 times

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Normalized Efficiency normalized efficiency: average real gain ~30 times

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Benchmarking Commentary non-exclusive access to interactive machines 'load-noise' background, unpredictible load peaks different CPU and RAM on nodes AFS used to fetch physics config data try to remove the noise: repeat simulations many times to get the correct mean work at night and off-peak hours (what about US people using CERN computing facilities ?) etc... interpretation of results scaling factors for different CPU speeds results agree with expectations

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Summary

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Scalability Tests prototype deployment of Geant4-DIANE proved significant performance improvement scalability tests: 140 Mio Events 70 nodes in the cluster 1 hour total parallel execution putting together DIANE and Geant4 is fairly easy done in few days...

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Easy to use user-friendliness application developer (e.g. Geant4 simulation) is shielded from complexity of underlying technology not affecting the original code of application standalone and distributed cases is the same code good separation of the subsystems application does not need to know that it runs in distributed environment... the distributed framework (DIANE) does not need to care about what actions application performs internally

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Universally Applicable DIANE is application independent easy to customize and use in applications other than Geant4 e.g. it has been originally developed for ntuple analysis DIANE may bridge applications to the GRID world without necessarily waiting for fully-fledged GRID infrastructure to become available with smooth transition to GRID technologies as they become available DIANE and distributed computing technology may be applied in a variety of other scientific/research domains

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 In progress: Optimization time of job execution = slowest machine......or most loaded one at the moment often had to wait a long time for last worker to finish example of customization exploit dual-processor mode use larger number of smaller workers fast machines run workers sequentially many times benchmark in dedicated cluster

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 In progress: Medical Applications plan to run Geant4 simulation for radiotherapy in couple of days new possibilities: precise MC-based treatment planning FAST small hospitals may access distributed resources worldwide

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 References more informarion: cern.ch/diane aida.freehep.org cern.ch/anaphe

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DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 From sequential to parallel simulation

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Structure of the simulation initialization phase (constant) load ~10-15 Mb of physics tables, config data etc. reference sequential machine: ~ 4 minutes (user time) cluster nodes: ~ 5-6 minutes beamOn ~ f( event number ) small job: 1-5 Mio events medium job: Mio events big job: > 50 Mio events

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Reproducability initial seed of the random engine make sure that every parallel simulation starts with a seed uniquely determined by the job's initial seed number of times engine is used depends on the initial seed make sure that correlations between the workers' seeds are avoided our solution: use two uncorrelated random engines one to generate a table of initial seeds (one seed for each worker) another for the simulation inside the worker

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 DIANE – G4 prototype Parallelization of Geant4 simulation is a joint project between Geant4 – DIANE – Anaphe DIANE is an R&D project in IT/API to study distributed analysis and simulation and create a prototype initiated early 2001 with very limited resources Anaphe is an analysis project supported by IT provides the analysis framework for HEP The pilot programme includes G4 simulation which produces AIDA/Anaphe histograms Collaboration started late spring 2002

DIANE Project Seminar on Innovative Detectors, Siena Oct 2002 Reproducability parameters which need to be fixed to reproduce the simulation: total number of events initial seed... but also: number of workers number of events per worker