1. LCG Status GridPP 8 September 22 nd 2003 Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch

2. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 2 LCG/PEB Work areas  Applications  Fabrics  Grid Technology  Grid Deployment

3. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 3 Applications  SPI  POOL  SEAL  PI  Simulation Software Process & Infrastructure (SPI) Core Libraries & Services (SEAL) Persistency (POOL) Physicist Interface (PI) Simulation … LCG Applications Area Other LCG Projects in other Areas LHC Experiments

4. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 4 Applications  SPI –Software Infrastructure solidly in place. The different components were covered in depth at GridPP 7. »Effort in this area reduced, but incremental improvements being delivered in response to feedback.  POOL  SEAL  PI  Simulation

5. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 5 Applications  SPI  POOL –First production release delivered on schedule in June –Experiment integration now underway »production use for CMS Pre-Challenge Production milestone met at end July »completion of first ATLAS integration milestone expected in September. »POOL deployment on LCG-1 beginning »POOL and SEAL working closely with experiment integrators to resolve bugs and issues exposed in integration. u Lots of them!, but this was expected!  SEAL  PI  Simulation

6. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 6 Applications  SPI  POOL  SEAL –Project on track …  PI  Simulation

7. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 7 Applications ReleaseDateStatusDescription (goals) V 0.1.014/02/03internal  Establish dependency between POOL and SEAL  Dictionary support & generation from header files V 0.2.031/03/03public  Essential functionality sufficient for the other existing LCG projects (POOL)  Foundation library, system abstraction, etc.  Plugin management V 0.3.016/05/03internal  Improve functionality required by POOL  Basic framework base classes V 1.0.030/06/03public  Essential functionality sufficient to be adopted by experiments  Collection of basic framework services  Scripting support Released 04/04/03 Released 14&26/02/03 Released 23/05/03 Released 18/07/03

8. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 8 Applications  SPI  POOL  SEAL –Project on track … –Waiting for detailed feedback on current functionality from POOL & experiments –Planning to develop new requested functionality »Object whiteboard (transient datastore) »Improvements to scripting: LCG dictionary integration, ROOT integration »Complete support for C++ types in the LCG dictionary  PI  Simulation

9. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 9 Applications  SPI  POOL  SEAL  PI –Principal initial mandate, a full ROOT implementation of AIDA histograms, recently completed –Still a small effort with limited scope, though. –Future planning depends on what comes out of the ARDA RTAG »Architectural Roadmap towards Distributed Analysis »Reviewing DA activities, HEPCAL II use cases, interfaces between Grid, LCG and experiment-specific services. »Started in September, scheduled to finish in October.  Simulation

10. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 10 Applications  SPI  POOL  SEAL  PI  Simulation –Physics Validation subproject particularly active »pion shower profile for ATLAS improved »expect extensive round of comparison with testbeam data in autumn. –ROSE: (Revised Overall Simulation Environment) »Looking at generic framework high level design, implementation approach, software to be reused. Decisions expected in September.

11. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 11 Fabrics  CC Infrastructure  Recosting  Management successes  RH release cycles

12. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 12 Fabrics — CC Infrastructure

13. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 13 Fabrics — CC Infrastructure

14. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 14 Fabrics — Recosting I  Representatives from IT and the 4 LHC experiments reviewed the expected equipment cost for LCG phase 2. –Took into account adjusted requirements from the experiments and some slight changes to the overall model. –Results published in July.

15. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 15 Fabrics — Recosting II All units in [ million CHF ]

16. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 16 Fabrics — System Management  Overall management suite christened over the summer: ELFms with components –quattor : EDG/WP4 installation & configuration –Lemon: LHC Era monitoring –LEAF: LHC Era Advanced Fabrics  quattor thoroughly in control of CERN fabric –migration to RH 7.3 managed by quattor in spring. –LSF 5 migration took 10 minutes in late August »Across 800+ batch nodes. Equivalent migration in 2002 took over 3 weeks with much disruption.  EDG/WP4 OraMon repository in production since September 1 st.  State Management System development underway.

17. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 17 Fabrics — RedHat Release Cycles  RedHat are moving to a twin product line –Frequent end-user releases with support limited to 1 year, but free. –Less frequent business releases with long term support at a cost.  Neither product really adapted to our needs –Annual change of system version is too rapid: 18-24 month cycle more realistic. –Cost of Enterprise server prohibitive for our farms.  Move to negotiate with RedHat for compromise –Major labs club together to pay for limited support (security patches + ?) for the end-user product for, say, 2 years. –Discussions at HEPiX in Vancouver »Plus visit to RedHat?

18. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 18 Grid Deployment — I  Deployment started (with pre-release tag) in July, to original 10 Tier 1 sites –CERN, BNL, CNAF, FNAL, FZK, Lyon, Moscow, RAL, Taipei, Tokyo –Other sites joined: PIC (Barcelona), Prague, Budapest  Situation today (18/9/03): –10 sites up: CERN, CNAF, RAL, FZK, FNAL, Moscow, Taipei, Tokyo, PIC, Budapest –Still working on installation: BNL, Prague, Lyon (situation not clear)  Other sites currently ready to join: –Bulgaria, Pakistan, Switzerland, Spanish Tier 2’s, Nikhef, Sweden  Official “certified” LCG-1 release (tag LCG-1.0.0) was available on 1 September at 5pm CET –Was installed at CERN, Taiwan, CNAF, Barcelona, Tokyo 24 hours later(!), and several others within a few days

19. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 19 Grid Deployment — II LCG-1 is:  VDT 1.1.8-9 (Globus 2.2.4) –Information System (MDS)  Selected software from EDG 2.0: –Workload Management System (RB) –EDG Data Management (RLS, LRC, …)  GLUE Schema 1.1 + LCG extensions  LCG local modifications/additions/fixes, such as: –Special job managers (LCGLSF, LCGPBS, LCGCONDOR) to solve the problem of sharing home directories –Gatekeeper enhancements (adding some accounting and auditing features, log rotation, that LCG requires) –Number of MDS fixes (also coming from NorduGrid) –Number of misc. Globus fixes, most of them included now in the VDT version LCG is using  Some problems remain. Overall, though, impressive improvement in terms of stability.

20. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 20 Grid Deployment — III  Starting to get experiments testing LCG-1 now –Loose cannons currently running on LCG-1 to verify basic functionality –Scheduling now with experiments »Initially we need to carefully control who does what » we need to monitor the system as the tests run to understand the problems –Migrate CMS LCG-0 to LCG-1 –Atlas, US_Atlas (want to demonstrate interoperability) –ALICE – continue with tests started by Loose Cannons –LHCb ? –We are scheduling these tests now, will commence next week  Once experiments verify their software on LCG-1 we must begin to add resources at each site –Currently very basic resources available

21. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 21 Grid Deployment — IV  Basics are in place but many tasks to be done at high priority to make a real production system: –Experiment sw distribution mechanism –Monitors to watch essential system resources on essential services (/tmp, etc) –System cleanup procedures –System auditing – must ensure procedures are in place –Need basic usage accounting in place –Need tool independent WN installation procedure – also for UI –Integration with MSS (setting up task force) »NB sites with MSS will need to implement interfaces –Integration with LXBatch (and others) –Standard procedures – we will start but needs a team from sites and GOC »for setting Runtime Environments »Change procedures »Operations »Incident handling

22. Tony.Cass@ CERN.ch 22 Summary  In general, good progress –Applications area –Fabrics, …  Yes, LCG-1 is delayed –but don’t forget the vast improvements to the overall system driven by the focus on delivering a production quality environment.  UK contribution to this work is extensive and much appreciated.