LcgCAF: CDF access method to LCG resources
G. Compostella, M. Bauce, S. Pagan Griso, D. Lucchesi, Massimo SGARAVATTO, Marco Cecchi · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2011
Up to the early 2011, the CDF collaboration has collected more than 8 fb −1 of data from p collisions at a center of mass energy TeV delivered by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. Second generation physics measurements, like precision determinations of top properties or searches for the Standard Model higgs, require increasing computing power for data analysis and events simulation. Instead of expanding its set of dedicated Condor based analysis farms, CDF moved to Grid resources. While in the context of OSG this transition was performed using Condor glideins and keeping CDF custom middleware software almost intact, in LCG a complete rewrite of the experiment's submission and monitoring tools was realized, taking full advantage of the features offered by the gLite Workload Management System (WMS). This led to the development of a new computing facility called LcgCAF that CDF collaborators are using to exploit Grid resources in Europe in a transparent way. Given the opportunistic usage of the available resources, it is of crucial importance for CDF to maximize jobs efficiency from submission to output retrieval. This work describes how an experimental resubmisson feature implemented in the WMS was tested in LcgCAF with the aim of lowering the overall execution time of a typical CDF job.