Overview
This example shows how to run jobs and especially SLIC, the Simulator for the Linear Collider, on the FermiGrid which is part of the Open Science Grid. SLIC is a Geant4-based simulations package that uses an XML geometry input format called LCDD to describe geometry, sensitive detectors and readout geometry.
The example scripts should be pasted directly into the terminal on ILCSIM. Do not use an editor, as the escape characters will not be interpreted correctly.
Prerequisites
- Obtain a DOE grid certificate from http://security.fnal.gov/pki/Get-Personal-DOEGrids-Cert.html, which also explains how to export the certificate from the browser, dealing with directory permissions, etc.
- Register with the ILC VO (Virtual organization) at http://cd-amr.fnal.gov/ilc/ilcsim/ilcvo-registration.shtml, which will guide you to: https://voms.fnal.gov:8443/vomrs/ilc/vomrs
- Get an account on ILCSIM and ILCSIM2, using the following form http://cd-amr.fnal.gov/ilc/ilcsim/ilcsim.shtml. This machines serve as a portal to the grid.
Setting up your own gateway to the grid is beyond the scope of this write-up. It involves installing and configuring the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT) , installing a host certificate for the gateway machine, etc. For an administrative guide see the Fermi Grid web page.
Setup and Configuration
Kerberos
Fermilab uses Kerberos for external authentication. This section assumes that you have a Fermilab Kerberos principal. Follow these instructions if you need an account at Fermilab and are authorized to obtain one.
Assuming that your machine has recent versions of SSH and Kerberos and you will not be using a Cryptocard, download Fermilab's official Kerberos configuration file.
Download the file.
wget http://security.fnal.gov/krb5.conf
Set the environment variable KRB5_CONFIG to point to the Fermilab configuration file.
export KRB5_CONFIG=`pwd`/krb5.conf
This variable can be added to your shell profile or setup in a script and the configuration file it points to will override the one in /etc.
Logging In
Logging in to a Fermilab gateway machine should now work provided that Kerberos has been configured correctly.
Initialize the Kerberos session.
kinit -f USERNAME@FNAL.GOV
Now ssh to a gateway machine at Fermilab.
ssh USERNAME@flxi02.fnal.gov
You may need to use ssh_config as your SSH configuration file for the Kerberos ticket forwarding to work correctly.
ssh -F ssh_config USERNAME@flxi02.fnal.gov
Now you should be able to connect to the ilcsim node.
ssh ilcsim
Setup the Grid Tools
To set up the environment and to get the necessary grid proxy certificate, issue the following commands on the ILCSIM machine (assumes a bash shell).
source /fnal/ups/grid/setup.sh voms-proxy-init -voms ilc:/ilc/detector # give passwd etc.
To check the status of the proxy:
voms-proxy-info -all
Running from an External Site
If you want to submit jobs from a node other than ILCSIM, the ilc VOMS server information needs to be explicitly provided.
The following should be put into a file, ilc-fermilab-voms.
"ilc" "fermigrid2.fnal.gov" "15023" "/DC=org/DC=doegrids/OU=Services/CN=host/fermigrid2.fnal.gov" "ilc"
Now a valid grid certificate can be obtained by referencing this configuration file.
voms-proxy-init ilc:/ilc -userconf ./ilc-fermilab-voms
The above command will fail if ilc-fermilab-voms is not owned by your account.
Provided that your local node is configured correctly, this should allow you to start a grid session on an external node outside Fermilab.
Simple commands such as globus-job-run should work "out of the box" from an external site. In order to actually submit jobs to the Fermilab batch system, you will need to have a Condor job scheduler running. Talk to your site administrator about setting up this software, which can be configured as part of the VDT.
Example Grid Jobs
Submitting the First Example Jobs
Now you should be all setup to submit a test job to make sure that everything is working. Cut and paste the following lines into your terminal window. This will submit a grid job which starts 5 separate processes. The processes will just execute sleep for 10 seconds before terminating. Since no output is created the sleep_grid.out.$(Cluster).$(Process) and sleep_grid.err.$(Cluster).$(Process) files should be empty.
(Note!: $(Cluster) represents the job number and $(Process) represents the (5) process numbers)
The condor log files are: sleep_grid.log.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
cat > sleep_grid << +EOF universe = grid type = gt2 globusscheduler = fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor executable = /bin/sleep transfer_output = true transfer_error = true transfer_executable = true log = sleep_grid.log.\$(Cluster).\$(Process) notification = NEVER output = sleep_grid.out.\$(Cluster).\$(Process) error = sleep_grid.err.\$(Cluster).\$(Process) stream_output = false stream_error = false ShouldTransferFiles = YES WhenToTransferOutput = ON_EXIT globusrsl = (jobtype=single)(maxwalltime=999) Arguments = 10 queue 5 +EOF condor_submit sleep_grid
The second example is an exploration job where the job reports the run time environment it encounters and the file systems that are mounted. This is very often useful to find out what is available on the worker nodes 
. So have a look at env_grid.out.$(Cluster).$(Process).
Note!: The grid job doesn't inherit the run time environment from your interactive session!
rm -f env_grid.sh
cat > env_grid.sh << +EOF
#!/bin/sh -f
printenv
cd \${_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR}
pwd
#
# This sets up the environment for osg in case we want to
# use grid services like srmcp
#
. $OSG_GRID/setup.sh
source \${VDT_LOCATION}/setup.sh
printenv
/bin/df
+EOF
chmod +x env_grid.sh
rm -f env_grid.run
cat > env_grid.run << +EOF
universe = grid
type = gt2
globusscheduler = fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor
executable = ./env_grid.sh
transfer_output = true
transfer_error = true
transfer_executable = true
log = env_grid.log.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
notification = NEVER
output = env_grid.out.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
error = env_grid.err.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
stream_output = false
stream_error = false
ShouldTransferFiles = YES
WhenToTransferOutput = ON_EXIT
globusrsl = (jobtype=single)(maxwalltime=999)
queue
+EOF
condor_submit env_grid.run
Submitting a Job running SLIC
Now finally let's run SLIC . We will use the SLIC installation and a data set that are available on the GRID worker nodes. As in the previous examples cut and paste the contends below:
rm -f slic_grid.csh
cat > slic_grid.csh << +EOF
#!/bin/csh
echo start
/bin/date
setenv LABELRUN slic_grid-\${ClusterProcess}
setenv TARFILE \${LABELRUN}-results.tar
echo \${TARFILE}
echo start
/bin/date
mkdir results
/grid/app/ilc/detector/SimDist/Oct-31-2007/SimDist/scripts/slic.sh -r 5 \
-g /grid/app/ilc/detector/SimDist/detectors/sid01/sid01.lcdd \
-i /grid/data/ilc/detector/LDC/stdhep/ZZ_run10.stdhep -o ./results/ZZ_run10\${LABELRUN} >& \
./results/ZZ_run10\${LABELRUN}.lis
ls -lh results
/bin/date
echo "build output tarball: " \${TARFILE}
tar -cf \${TARFILE} results
echo done
+EOF
chmod +x slic_grid.csh
rm -f slic_grid.run
cat > slic_grid.run << +EOF
universe = grid
type = gt2
globusscheduler = fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor
executable = ./slic_grid.csh
transfer_output = true
transfer_error = true
transfer_executable = true
environment = "ClusterProcess=\$(Cluster)-\$(Process)"
transfer_output_files = slic_grid-\$(Cluster)-\$(Process)-results.tar
log = slic_grid.log.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
notification = NEVER
output = slic_grid.out.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
error = slic_grid.err.\$(Cluster).\$(Process)
stream_output = false
stream_error = false
ShouldTransferFiles = YES
WhenToTransferOutput = ON_EXIT
globusrsl = (jobtype=single)(maxwalltime=999)
queue
+EOF
condor_submit slic_grid.run
Running Commands directly on the Head Node
To run some commands directly on the grid head nodes use a syntax like this:
globus-job-run fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor /bin/ls /grid/app globus-job-run fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor /usr/bin/printenv globus-job-run fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor /bin/df
The examples above show how to check what grid applications are installed, the runtime environment of a job and what file systems are mounted. To check for available SLIC/SimDist distributions type:
globus-job-run fngp-osg.fnal.gov/jobmanager-condor /bin/ls /grid/app/ilc/detector/SimDist/
Checking and Killing your Jobs
You can see the status of all jobs using the following command:
condor_q or condor_q -globus
Or to check the jobs submitted by user <username>:
condor_q -submitter <username>
You can view information about all requests with the following command:
condor_status -submitters
To cancel a job type condor_rm followed by the job number:
condor_rm <job number>