Status of the ALFA/FairRoot Mohammad Al-Turany ALFA/FairRoot activites • Framework level – Modularity – Serialization – DDS and Topology • Prototypes and benchmarks – New Prototype for CBM FLES – Benchmarks with O2 on the DAQ test cluster – Benchmarks with O2 on the GSI test cluster • Parameter management in ALFA June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Improve modularity FairSoft • New installation option for FairSoft – ./configure mqonly • Only CMake, BOOST, ROOT, ZMQ, gtest , gsl are build • Exclude Geant3/4, Millepede, VMC, VGM, pluto, HEPMC, Pythia6/8 > git clone https://github.com/MohammadAlTurany/FairSoft/ > git checkout MQ_only June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Improve modularity FairRoot/ALFA • New installation option for FairRoot – Cmake -DRECO_ONLY=1 • Exclude simulation and event generators June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Currently implemented and ready to use transport formats • Boost serialization • Protocol buffers • Root serialization June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Current status of tests • Examples are installed on the test cluster • Example scripts are available on the gateway machine : – /local/home/cwg13/new_test_21.05.2014/single/ • Message (part) size can be set from script – Message part size = 40 x eventSize (Bytes) June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Current status of tests • Different scenarios can be tested by changing the configuration • Documentation for the configuration are available: https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairRoot/tree/dev/example/Tutorial3/macro June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Nicolas Winkler Proto type for CBM FLES • A Prototype which read simulated data, fill the RAW data format and send it on the wire is implemented for the CBM experiment • BOOST serialization is used – Sampler: • which read the root files produced by the cbmroot simulation and convert the data in the FLES format and fill the STS microslices – Processor: – which get the STS microslices and merge them into one timeslice – Filesink: • which get the timeslices June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Benchmarks June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Running the Zero MQ performance test on the DAQ test cluster aidrefma02  aidrefma01 Throughput Gbyte/s 5.00 4.00 1-Processes 3.00 2-Processes 3-Processes 4-processes 2.00 1.00 0 June 27, 2014 10 20 30 40 Msg size in MByte M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week 50 60 Performance test with FairMQ FLP 2 EPN FLP EPN aidrefma02 aidrefma01 Push-Pull pattern Message size= 10 Mbyte Throughput = 2,6 Gbyte/s June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Performance test with FairMQ FLP 2 EPN FLP EPN aidrefma02 aidrefma01 Push-Pull pattern Message size= 10 Mbyte Throughput = 3,7 Gbyte/s June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Performance test with FairMQ FLP 2 EPN FLP EPN aidrefma03 aidrefma01 Push-Pull pattern Message size= 10 Mbyte Throughput = 4,8 Gbyte/s June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week GSI test cluster 4 identical machines with 40 Gbit infiniband network connection June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week IP over IB Tests on the GSI test cluster FLP EPN lxb1193 EPN lxb1196 EPN lxb1197 lxb1194 Push-Pull pattern Message size= 10 Mbyte June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week IP over IB June 27, 2014 FLP Network load M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week IP over IB June 27, 2014 FLP CPU load M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week IP over IB June 27, 2014 EPN CPU load M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week IP over IB June 27, 2014 EPN Network load M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week IP over IB June 27, 2014 Cluster load M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Parameter management in ALFA June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Parameter manager in FairRoot Parameter Manager RtDB ROOT FairD B June 27, 2014 ASSCII M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Initialization scheme in FairRoot Parameter Manager RtDB ROOT ASSCII FairDB Parameter containers Unique Id 2 June 27, 2014 ReInit exec() M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Unique Id 2 Parameter containers exec() Unique Id 1 Unique Id 1 SetContainers Init() Parameter manager for ALFA Parameter Manager RtDB ROOT FairD B ASSCII REQ (Unique Id 1) REQ SUB Device (Task) June 27, 2014 Unique Id 1 PUB REQ REP Parameter containers M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week Unique Id 1 Parameter containers SUB Device (Task) Next steps: • Port code from the HLT to O2 prototype • Test different scenarios for the FLP/EPN configurations. • Use the HLT dev Cluster for testing June 27, 2014 M. Al-Turany, ALICE offline week