Resources / Computing

In this section options for ComputingElements can be set

Location for Parameters

Options for computing elements can be set at different levels, from lowest to highest prority

/Resources/Computing/OSCompatibility

This section is used to define a compatibility matrix between dirac platforms (dirac-platform) and OS versions.

An example of this session is the following:

OSCompatibility
{
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 = x86_64_CentOS_Carbon_6.6
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Carbon_6.7
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Core_7.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Core_7.5
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Final_6.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Final_6.7
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Final_6.9
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Final_7.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_CentOS_Final_7.5
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_RedHatEnterpriseLinuxServer_6.7_Santiago
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_RedHatEnterpriseLinuxServer_7.2_Maipo
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_Scientific_6_6.9
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_Scientific_Carbon_6.8
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_Scientific_Carbon_6.9
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Boron_6.5
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Carbon_6.3
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Carbon_6.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Carbon_6.5
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Carbon_6.6
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Carbon_6.7
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificCERNSLC_Carbon_6.9
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificLinux-6.9_0_0
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Boron_6.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.10
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.3
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.5
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.6
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.7
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.8
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.9
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6x
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Carbon_6.x
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_Nitrogen_7.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_SL_6.4
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_ScientificSL_SL_6.5
  Linux_x86_64_glibc-2.5 += x86_64_SL_Nitrogen_7.2
}

What’s on the left is an example of a dirac platform as determined the dirac-platform script (dirac-platform). This platform is declared to be compatible with a list of “OS” strings. These strings are identifying the architectures of computing elements. This list of strings can be constructed from the “Architecture” + “OS” fields that can be found in the CEs description in the CS (Resources / Sites - Subsections).

This compatibility is, by default, used by the SiteDirector when deciding if to send a pilot or not to a certain CE: the SiteDirector matches “TaskQueues” to Computing Element capabilities.

Other subsections are instead used to describe specific types of computing elements:

  • /Resources/Computing/CEDefaults for all computing elements

  • /Resources/Computing/<CEType> for CEs of a given type, e.g., HTCondorCE or ARC

  • /Resources/Sites/<grid>/<site>/CEs for all CEs at a given site

  • /Resources/Sites/<grid>/<site>/CEs/<CEName> for a specific CE

Values are overwritten by the most specialized option.

General Parameters

These parameters are valid for all types of computing elements

Name

Description

Example

GridEnv

Default environment file sourced before calling grid commands, without extension ‘.sh’.

/opt/dirac/gridenv (when the file is gridenv.sh)

SharedArea

Will be added to the pilot configuration as /LocalSite/SharedArea

/cvmfs/lhcb.cern.ch/lib

ExtraPilotOptions

For adding some generic pilot options. (only for pilots submitted by SiteDirectors)

–userEnvVariables DIRACSYSCONFIG:::pilot.cfg will add the environment variable DIRACSYSCONFIG (see Environment Variables to Configure DIRAC Behaviour)

GLUE2ComputingShareMaxSlotsPerJob_limit

The upper limit for the NumberOfProcessors queue parameter set by the Bdii2CSAgent.

8

ARC CE Parameters

Name

Description

Example

XRSLExtraString

Default additional string for ARC submit files

XRSLMPExtraString

Default additional string for ARC submit files for multi-processor jobs.

Host

The host for the ARC CE, used to overwrite the ce name

WorkingDirectory

Directory where the pilot log files are stored locally.

/opt/dirac/pro/runit/WorkloadManagement/SiteDirectorArc

Singularity CE Parameters

Name

Description

Example

ContainerRoot

The root image location for the container to use.

/cvmfs/cernvm-prod.cern.ch/cvm4 (Default: /cvmfs/cernvm-prod.cern.ch/cvm3)

ContainerBin

The binary to start the container

/opt/extras/bin/singularity (default: singularity)

ContainerBind

List of directories to bind

/etc/grid-security,someDir:::BoundHere

ContainerOptions

Extra options for starting the container

–cleanenv

InstallDIRACInContainer

Flag for re-installing, or not, DIRAC in the container

False (default: True)

ContainerExtraOpts

Extra options for dirac-install within the container.

-u ‘http://other.host/instdir

KeepWorkArea

If set to True container work area won’t be deleted at end of job

True (Default: False)

HTCondorCE Parameters

For the options for the HTCondorCEs see HTCondorCEComputingElement

CREAM CE Parameters

Name

Description

Example

ExtraJDLParameters

Additional JDL parameters to submit pilot jobs to CREAm CE. Separate entries with “;”.

ExtraJDLParameters = GPUNumber=1; OneMore=”value”