An alternative model to distribute VO software to WLCG sites based on CernVM-FS: a prototype at PIC Tier1
Abstract
In a distributed computing model as WLCG the software of experiment specific application software has to be efficiently distributed to any site of the Grid. Application software is currently installed in a shared area of the site visible for all Worker Nodes (WNs) of the site through some protocol (NFS, AFS or other). The software is installed at the site by jobs which run on a privileged node of the computing farm where the shared area is mounted in write mode. This model presents several drawbacks which cause a non-negligible rate of job failure. An alternative model for software distribution based on the CERN Virtual Machine File System (CernVM-FS) has been tried at PIC, the Spanish Tierl site of WLCG. The test bed used and the results are presented in this paper.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1742-6596/331/6/062036
- Bibcode:
- 2011JPhCS.331f2036L