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Re: Operations team (& sites again) meeting @ 11am in EVO

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John Gordon <[log in to unmask]>

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Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:32:52 +0000

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OK, ignore my data for now. I don't want to confuse things. Cristina who generated it is on holiday. The portal people may do some massaging. Cristina;s figure should agree with what you have on your glite-apel database though. That is what the apel-sync nagios tests check.

John 

-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alessandra Forti
Sent: 19 April 2011 19:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Operations team (& sites again) meeting @ 11am in EVO

 > I've also had a look at John Gordon's APEL figures. They confuse me 
too. Looking at the EGI accounting portal myself, for ATLAS, in March, 
Liverpool had a total
 > normalised CPU time (HEPSPEC06.Hours) of 2,861,280. Totalling up the 
figures in John's email, I get 2,145,960. Steve Lloyd's figures have the 
same, 209.5M.
 > Where'd the other 715,320 go? Number of jobs is even more confusing. 
The accounting portal gives 109,435 ATLAS jobs for Liverpool. John's 
figures seem to
 > say we ran 142,884 production jobs alone. Steve's metrics say 50,993 
total ATLAS jobs in March. Eh? Am I doing something wrong here?

John's figure is in kSI2k not in HS06 and they are exactly twice for 
Manchester and a factor 3 for Liverpool of what is in the CESGA portal.

Manchester

John=2,630,424
CESGA=1,315,212

Liverpool

John=2,145,960
CESGA=715,320

I can check the other sites but there seem to be some multiple counting 
in the query (number of CEs is the first thing that pops to my mind).

cheers
alessandra

On 19/04/2011 16:40, Rob Fay wrote:
> On 18/04/2011 21:23, J Coles wrote:
>> This week is the meeting slot usually set aside for the more operations
>> team focussed discussions; but this week we want to spend half the 
>> meeting
>> discussing the GridPP metrics that will be used for the Tier-2 
>> accounting,
>> so all site admins are encouraged to attend.
>
> Right, well, we've had a look at 
> http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/metrics.html at Liverpool. The 
> HS06 Atlas figure seems OK for Liverpool - most of our nodes are new 
> E5620s, we have a minority of L5420s, and nothing older than that. Our 
> average HS06 per core is 14.59, so 14.8 seems within a reasonable 
> margin of error given some variation depending on which nodes jobs 
> land on.
>
> The HS06 Prod figure does seem low. This would appear to be down to 
> our Prod (s/evt) figure being 105.0 when you would expect it to be 
> significantly lower given our faster CPUs. So why is it 105.0? I don't 
> know. Where does the figure come from? What should we be looking into 
> to investigate that?
>
> Then there are some things here which could be factors. We use scaling 
> on our L5420s for example, scaling them to the HS06 of the E5620s that 
> make up the majority of our cluster, i.e. they have a multiplier of 
> 0.58 in PBS. Is that going to affect any of these figures? Not sure.
>
> On top of that, we occasionally overflow jobs on to our local 'tier 3' 
> cluster when it's idle and we have jobs waiting. This is very much 
> opportunistic use, just to deliver some additional CPU to the project 
> rather than letting it go idle. Consequently this isn't in our 
> publishing. Should it be? This would also affect the available CPU 
> category of the ATLAS metrics. I imagine it's similar for sites with 
> access to a shared cluster (this would apply to the Computing Services 
> cluster behind hepgrid3 at Liverpool). Do they publish the entire 
> cluster, even though in practice they may well not be able to use all 
> of it, or do they publish only the share they can guarantee, even 
> though at other times they may well get more? Do they publish the 
> maximum possible CPU share, or the minimum?
>
> I've also had a look at John Gordon's APEL figures. They confuse me 
> too. Looking at the EGI accounting portal myself, for ATLAS, in March, 
> Liverpool had a total normalised CPU time (HEPSPEC06.Hours) of 
> 2,861,280. Totalling up the figures in John's email, I get 2,145,960. 
> Steve Lloyd's figures have the same, 209.5M. Where'd the other 715,320 
> go? Number of jobs is even more confusing. The accounting portal gives 
> 109,435 ATLAS jobs for Liverpool. John's figures seem to say we ran 
> 142,884 production jobs alone. Steve's metrics say 50,993 total ATLAS 
> jobs in March. Eh? Am I doing something wrong here?
>
> I can't help feeling this is all becoming unnecessarily complicated - 
> and that's without asking about metrics for the other VOs sites get 
> funding for...
>

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