Abstract
The Dynafed data federator is designed to present a dynamic and unified view of a distributed file repository. We describe our use of Dynafed to construct a production-ready WLCG storage element (SE) using existing grid storage endpoints as well as object storage. Dynafed is used as the primary SE for the Canadian distributed computing cloud systems for the Belle-II experiment, where we use it in production for reading input files. We have run up to 6,000 Belle-II jobs simultaneously on distributed cloud resources, requiring the transfer of approximately 60 TB of input data per day. Similarly, we have been using a Dynafed-based SE in pre-production testing for the ATLAS experiment. We will describe the configuration of Dynafed to make it suitable as a WLCG SE. In particular, we will highlight the improvements within Dynafed that make it possible to do checksum based file verification and 3rd-party file copy via WebDAV. We will also report on a new monitoring system and an automated system that collects storage information from all endpoints.
Highlights
The Dynafed data federator [1] gives an unified view of a distributed file repository in a dynamic way
We describe our use of Dynafed to construct a production-ready WLCG storage element (SE) using existing grid storage endpoints as well as object storage
All instances support the usual authentication and authorization mechanism commonly used within the WLCG
Summary
The Dynafed data federator [1] gives an unified view of a distributed file repository in a dynamic way. A distributed solution is needed which allows to integrate different storage services located close to the clouds we are running on and which is accessible via a single SE endpoint name. Dynafed is such a solution we are exploring. Dynafed is used by CERN for the LHC@home projects of the LHC experiments [5], by RAL for their ECHO cluster [6], and by INFN to allow for an unified view of the Belle-II user area on the Grid [7]
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