JINR DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION AND COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT: PARTICIPANTS, FEATURES AND CHALLENGES
Nikita A. Balashov, I. Kuprikov, Nikolay A. Kutovskiy, A. Makhalkin, Ye. Mazhitova, I. Pelevanyuk, Roman N. Semenov · 9th International Conference "Distributed Computing and Grid Technologies in Science and Education" · 2021
The JINR Distributed Information and Computing Environment (DICE) was created to combineresources for solving common scientific tasks, as well as to distribute peak loads across the resourcesof partner organizations from the JINR Member States. To monitor the hardware resources andservices of the growing DICE infrastructure, a system based on Prometheus and Thanos was designedand deployed. The collected metrics, including the geographical location of the JINR DICEparticipants, are visualized using Grafana. Software distribution is carried out with the help of theCERN Virtual Machines File System. All these topics, as well as challenges and possible overcomes,are covered in detail.