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May 8 – 12, 2023
Norfolk Waterside Marriott
US/Eastern timezone

Job CPU Performance comparison based on MINIAOD reading options: local versus remote

May 11, 2023, 11:45 AM
15m
Marriott Ballroom II-III (Norfolk Waterside Marriott)

Marriott Ballroom II-III

Norfolk Waterside Marriott

235 East Main Street Norfolk, VA 23510
Oral Track 4 - Distributed Computing Track 4 - Distributed Computing

Speaker

Balcas, Justas (California Institute of Technology)

Description

A critical challenge of performing data transfers or remote reads is to be fast and efficient as possible while, at the same time, keeping the usage of system resources as low as possible. Ideally, the software that manages these data transfers should be able to organize them so that one can have them run up to the hardware limits. Significant portions of LHC analysis use the same datasets, running over each file or dataset multiple times. By utilizing "on-demand" based regional caches, we can improve CPU Efficiency and reduce the wide area network usage. Speeding up user analysis and reducing network usage (and hiding latency from jobs by caching most essential files on demand) are significant challenges for HL-LHC, where the data volume increases to an exabyte level. In this paper, we will describe our journey and tests with the CMS XCache project (SoCal Cache), which will compare job performance and CPU efficiency using different storage solutions (Hadoop, Ceph, Local Disk, Named Data Networking). It will also provide insights into our tests over a wide area network and possible storage and network usage savings.

Consider for long presentation Yes

Primary author

Balcas, Justas (California Institute of Technology)

Presentation materials

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