Next Generation Workload Management System For Big Data on Heterogeneous Distributed Computing

Journal Article · Fri May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/608/1/012040· OSTI ID:1265526

Klimentov, A. ^[1]; Buncic, P. ^[2]; De, K. ^[3]; Jha, S. ^[4]; Maeno, T. ^[1]; Mount, R. ^[5]; Nilsson, P. ^[1]; Oleynik, D. ^[3]; Panitkin, S. ^[1]; Petrosyan, A. ^[3]; Porter, R. J. ^[6]; Read, K. F. ^[7]; Vaniachine, A. ^[8]; Wells, J. C. ^[7]; Wenaus, T. ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
2. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
3. Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States)
4. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
5. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
7. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), operating at the international CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is leading Big Data driven scientific explorations. Experiments at the LHC explore the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe, and were recently credited for the discovery of a Higgs boson. ATLAS and ALICE are the largest collaborations ever assembled in the sciences and are at the forefront of research at the LHC. To address an unprecedented multi-petabyte data processing challenge, both experiments rely on a heterogeneous distributed computational infrastructure. The ATLAS experiment uses PanDA (Production and Data Analysis) Workload Management System (WMS) for managing the workflow for all data processing on hundreds of data centers. Through PanDA, ATLAS physicists see a single computing facility that enables rapid scientific breakthroughs for the experiment, even though the data centers are physically scattered all over the world. The scale is demonstrated by the following numbers: PanDA manages O(10²) sites, O(10⁵) cores, O(10⁸) jobs per year, O(10³) users, and ATLAS data volume is O(10¹⁷) bytes. In 2013 we started an ambitious program to expand PanDA to all available computing resources, including opportunistic use of commercial and academic clouds and Leadership Computing Facilities (LCF). The project titled 'Next Generation Workload Management and Analysis System for Big Data' (BigPanDA) is funded by DOE ASCR and HEP. Extending PanDA to clouds and LCF presents new challenges in managing heterogeneity and supporting workflow. The BigPanDA project is underway to setup and tailor PanDA at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) and at the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" together with ALICE distributed computing and ORNL computing professionals. Our approach to integration of HPC platforms at the OLCF and elsewhere is to reuse, as much as possible, existing components of the PanDA system. Finally, we will present our current accomplishments with running the PanDA WMS at OLCF and other supercomputers and demonstrate our ability to use PanDA as a portal independent of the computing facilities infrastructure for High Energy and Nuclear Physics as well as other data-intensive science applications.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725; AC02-98CH10886; AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1265526
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 608, Issue 1; ISSN 1742-6588
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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