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Farm batch system and Fermi inter-process communication and synchronization toolkit

Conference · · Comput.Phys.Commun.
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  1. Fermilab; Fermilab
  2. Fermilab
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Farms Batch System (FBS) was developed as a batch process management system for off-line Run II data processing at Fermilab. FBS will manage PC farms composed of up to 250 nodes and scalable to 1000 nodes with disk capacity of up to several TB. FBS allows users to start arrays of parallel processes on multiple computers. It uses a simplified “resource counting” method load balancing. FBS has been successfully used for more than a year at Fermilab by fixed target experiments and will be used for collider experiment off-line data processing.Fermi Inter-Process Communication toolkit (FIPC) was designed as a supplement product for FBS that helps establish synchronization and communication between processes running in a distributed batch environment. However, FIPC is an independent package, and can be used with other batch systems, as well as in a non-batch environment. FIPC provides users with a variety of global distributed objects such as semaphores, queues and string variables. Other types of objects can be easily added to FIPC.FIPC has been running on several PC farms at Fermilab for half a year and is going to be used by CDF for off-line data processing.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
774729
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-00-083; oai:inspirehep.net:553487
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Comput.Phys.Commun. Journal Issue: 1-2 Journal Volume: 140
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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