Data Management The European DataGrid Project Team http://www.eu-datagrid.org
Jan 18, 2018
Data Management
The European DataGrid Project Team
http://www.eu-datagrid.org
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Problem Statement:How to connect
User/Programs/Data? User
logged in to a Grid “User Interface” machine, or Logged in to a “desktop” machine
Programs On desktop On UI On Grid machines “god knows where”
Data May need to supply (Grid or non-Grid) data to GNW programs GNW program may generate data, need to put it somewhere
safe How do you retrieve it from somewhere safe?
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Common Grid Data Management Tasks
Dealing with Data Your Job Generates Getting the data back to your desktop Putting the data “on the Grid”
Getting Data to your Job Submitting data along with your job Putting your data onto the Grid (from outside) Sending your Grid job to your Grid data
Moving Data on the Grid How to find your data if you don’t remember where you put it Example scripts and files: ~dgttutor/dm-tests/
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Grid Data Management Tools
Data Transfer mostly through gsiftp Like good old FTP except uses grid auth(oriza)(entica)tion No passwords! Can also use multiple streams for faster transfer
Resource Broker can send (small amounts) of data to/from jobs
Replica Catalog keeps track of where various copies of “grid datasets” are located
Edg-replica-manager uses gsiftp & RC to manage instantiation, registration, and replication of grid datasets
Resource Broker can use RC to find your data, and send your job to it, if you tell RB about the data you need
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Grid Program -> Data on your desktop
You can set up your job for “data pickup” Job generates data in current working directory on WN At job end, the data files are placed in temp storage at RB You get them back via “dg-job-get-output”
Key items: You need to know names of files you want to get back OutputSandbox = {“higgs.root",“graviton.HDF"}; not intended for large files (> hundred MB) – storage
limitation on Resource Broker machine Example: output-sandbox.{jdl,sh}
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Putting the data “on the Grid”
Here we talk about a running Grid program, the output of which you want on the Grid. Two cases:
You let the program write output on the WN, and after the program finishes you have the job script move the data to Grid storage
You arrange for the program to write directly to Grid storage In both cases, data is not really “on the Grid” until it is
registered in the “replica catalog”
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Grid-generated data to Grid storage I
Your program generates data to some local file You have to know (or be able to figure out) what the local
file name is Use the edg-replica-manager commands to
Put the data onto Grid storage Register the data as a Grid dataset
A few extras are needed Some idea of where to put the data A “logical file name” – location-independent grid file name
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GGDGS (I) Cont’d
How to find out where to put data? Need to know which storage elements are out there
ldapsearch -h lxshare0225.cern.ch -p 2170 -x -b \"Mds-vo-name=local,o=grid" (objectclass=storageelement) \ seid
The command which will move your data to the desired location, and register it in the replica catalog, is edg-replica-manager-copyAndRegisterFile
edg-replica-manager-copyAndRegisterFile \ -s $(hostname)/$(pwd)/$DFILE -l $LFN -d $DEST_SE
See cr-mov-reg.{sh,jdl} examples
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Grid-generated data to Grid storage II
Your program generates data directly to a “close SE” Close means you can use normal file IO to write it You have to use a brokerinfo command to find out what
the close SE is (you don’t know where your job will go!) and what the dir is
You write the data Use the edg-replica-manager commands to
Register the data as a Grid dataset An extra is needed
A “logical file name” – location-independent grid file name
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GGDGS II (cont’d) Restriction: the “local file name” has to be the same as the
logical file name (at least the “base” name) File on disk: /data/spool/123fred7; LFNs:
123fred7 is OK 123fred is not OK fred7 is not OK Skippy is not OK spool/123fred7 is OK
Logical file name must not already be in catalogue You also probably want to check that the file doesn’t exist on
disk before you start to write it Example files: cr-on-se-and-reg.{jdl,sh} Check if it was successful:
edg-replica-manager-listReplicas -c /opt/edg/etc/tutor/rc.conf \ -l whomp.119
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Submitting Data Along With Your Job
This is fairly easy: use the Input Sandbox Careful – not a sandbox in the javascript sense InputSandbox = {“input-ntuple.root"}; Example files: inp-sbox.{jdl,sh}
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Moving Data Onto Grid from Outside
This is almost identical to GGDGS I Use edg-replica-manager-copyAndRegisterFile Need to specify rc.conf file (either with RC_CONFIG_FILE
variable or with –c option) … defaults in /opt/edg/etc/<vo>/rc.conf
Remember restrictions: LFN and remote file name have to match source and destination files must include hostnames
edg-replica-manager-copyAndRegisterFile –c rc.conf –l whomp.145 –s $(hostname)/$(pwd)/gls –d gppse05.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
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Having Grid Send Job to Your Data
Need to have data “on the Grid” == listed in RC Tell your job (JDL) about the grid data:
InputData = “LF:myfile.dat” Resource Broker puts info about data matching in
“brokerinfo” file on remote execution node In your job execution script, use the “edg-brokerinfo”
command (getselectedfile) to find location of job-local copy
Example files: find-data.{jdl,sh}
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Moving Data Around
Edg-replica-manager-replicateFile –c rc.conf –l <lfn> -d <dest-SE-name> -s <source-SE-name>
Try the previous test (w/ dg-job-list-match) – should find a new site willing to accept your job
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Finding Your Data
ldapsearch –LLL –h grid-vo.nikhef.nl –p 10389 –x –b “rc=EDGtutorialReplicaCatalog,dc=eu-datagrid,dc=org” ‘(filename=jtdmtest1)’ dn
Shows “dn”s wherever the selected “filename” exist
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GDMP
Tool for replication of large sets of files between sites Can do a lot with it Easy to get commands wrong
Can’t recover from certain errors Possible to wreck the GDMP subsystem badly enough that
remote sysadmins will have to make manual fixes Recommend not to use unless you really need it! Ex: you don’t normally use the “dd” command to copy
files!
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Gotchas
Edg-replica-manager commands Error messages not always on target Careful not to use commands in ways other than intended –
error trapping not good, and sometimes the command will do something but not necessarily what you want
Build error checking & trapping into your job scripts Remember restrictions on LFN/PFN correspondence
Replica catalog Leaving out pieces of the command generally neither works
nor provides helpful messages – type carefully!
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EDG Replica Catalog
Based upon the Globus LDAP Replica Catalog Stores LFN/PFN mappings and additional information (e.g. filesize):
Physical File Name (PFN): host + full path & and file name Logical File Name (LFN): logical name that may be resolved to PFNs LFN : PFN = 1 : n
Only files on storage elements may be registered Each VO has a specific storage dir on an SE Example PFN: lxshare0222.cern.ch/flatfiles/SE1/iteam/file1.dat host storage dir
LFN must be full path of file starting from storage dirLFN of above PFN: file1.dat
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globus-url-copy
Low level tool for secure copyingglobus-url-copy <protocol>://<source file> \ <protocol>://<destination file>
Main Protocols: gsiftp – for secure transfer, only available on SE and CE file – for accessing files stored on the local file system on e.g. UI,
WN
globus-url-copy file://`pwd`/file1.dat \ gsiftp://lxshare0222.cern.ch/ \ flatfiles/SE1/EDGTutorial/file1.dat
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The Replica Manager APIs
(un)registerEntry(LogicalFileName lfn,
FileName source) Replica Catalogue operations only - no file transfer
copyFile(FileName source,
FileName destination,
String protocol) allows for third-party transfer transfer between:
two StorageElements or ComputingElement and Storage Element Space management policies under development
all tools support parallel streams for file transfers
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copyAndRegisterFile(LogicalFileName lfn,
FileName source,
FileName destination,
String protocol) third-party transfer but : files can only be registered in Replica Catalogue if destination PFN
contains a valid SE (i.e. needs to be registered in the RC)! replicateFile(LogicalFileName lfn,
FileName source,
FileName destination,
String protocol) deleteFile(LogicalFileName lfn,
FileName source)
The Replica Manager APIs