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Distributing User Code with the CernVM FileSystem

Journal Article · · EPJ Web of Conferences (Online)
The CernVM FileSystem (CVMFS) is widely used in High Throughput Computing to efficiently distributed experiment code. However, the standard CVMFS publishing tools are designed for a small group of people from each experiment to maintain common software, and the tools are not a good fit for publishing software from numerous users in each experiment. As a result, most user code, such as code to do specific physics analyses, is still sent with every job to the place the job is run. That process is relatively inefficient, especially when the user code is large. To overcome these limitations, we have built a CVMFS user code publication system. This publication system enables users to still submit their code with their jobs but the code is distributed and accessed through the standard CVMFS infrastructure. The user code is automatically deleted from CVMFS after a period of no use. Most of the software for the system is available as a single self-contained open source rpm called cvmfs-user-pub and is available for other deployments.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Contributing Organization:
FIFE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1623372
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 23171940
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB--CONF-20-108-SCD; oai:inspirehep.net:1795488
Journal Information:
EPJ Web of Conferences (Online), Journal Name: EPJ Web of Conferences (Online) Vol. 245; ISSN 2100-014X
Publisher:
EDP SciencesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Status and future perspectives of CernVM-FS journal December 2012
FIFE-Jobsub: a grid submission system for intensity frontier experiments at Fermilab journal June 2014


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