As exemplified on the pictures above (from the photo gallery of one of the students), CERN School of Computing includes a good deal of extracurricular activities. Which probably goes a long way in explaining the good and humorous atmosphere in the classroom.
Having spent a lot of energy preparing the exercise with the great CSC team, […]
In this exercise we’ll solve the same assignment as in exercise 1, but using a prepackaged GridPilot application.
Download and install GridPilot
Start GridPilot and answer the initial questions - enable only the computing system “GridFactory” and set the submission host to gridfactory.nbi.dk
Import the app “ttbar_exercise”
Select the application/dataset “ttbar_exercise-100k-events” and click “Run”
Select the application/dataset “ttbar_exercise-merge” and click […]
Exercise 1: LHC Monte Carlo event generation and analysis
One of the final plots.
This exercise was created for the 2011 CERN CERN School of Computing, hosted by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
Credits: physics content of this exercise by Jørgen Beck Hansen from the Niels Bohr Institute.
Assignment: Generate 500′000 LHC t-tbar events with PYTHIA and […]
In this post I’ll report on running the application “mc09_7TeV.107691….” from the GridPilot app store. In the case of NorduGrid and WLCG, the ATLAS software is preinstalled on the resources. In the case of GridFactory, the jobs run inside a CernVM appliance with ATLAS software loaded through the AFS network file system. The input dataset […]
In previous posts we saw that I/O bound jobs ran ~3 faster on standard SATA disks than on network file systems and block devices (GPFS, NFS, EBS). This post reports on CPU bound jobs. I ran standard ATLAS Monte Carlo simulation on both grid and cloud resources: imported the ATLAS simulation app and ran […]
In this post, I’ll take a look at some more runs of the “atlas_d3pd_boildown” application available in the GridPilot app store. The difference w.r.t. the runs described in a previous post is that this time I ran on cloud as opposed to grid resources. On dedicated hardware and on two public clouds, Amazon’s EC2 […]
In this post, I’ll take a look at some runs of the POV-Ray application available in the GridPilot app store: To import this app, just choose “File → Import application”, navigate to the relevant folder and click “OK”.
This application is a bit more sophisticated than the one used for the simple benchmarking described in a […]
This example is special in that it does not depend on any preinstalled software package (runtime environment), but includes a precompiled binary. This binary will of course only for certain run on the system it was compiled on. We compiled on Debian Sarge and Scientific Linux 5 and run on all back-ends: a local virtual […]
This is the application demoed in the screencast on the front page. The demo uses the default input files - which are 12 royalty free music files found on incompetech.com. This can be changed - by right-clicking on the input dataset, “music_files”, and choosing “Import file(s)”. If you’ve already imported the default files, just select […]
Given the popularity of the iPhone, an interesting use of a batch system is conversion of movie files from the AVI to the MPG4 format. In this post I’ll explain 3 ways doing this with GridPilot. Which way you prefer will likely depend on the number and size of files you want to convert and […]