The Automatic Run Processor (or ARP, for short, because I want that to catch on) is a web service that allows for the easier submission of batch jobs via a web interface. A script that submits the batch job (to allow for more customization in this command) is all that is needed for this system to work.
To use this system, choose an experiment from https://pswww.slac.stanford.edu/lgbk/lgbk/experiments.
Under the Workflow dropdown, select Definitions. The Workflow Definitions tab is the location where scripts are defined; scripts are registered with a unique name. Any number of scripts can be registered. To register a new script, please click on the + button on the top right hand corner.
A unique name given to a registered script; the same script can be registered under different names with different parameters.
The absolute path to the batch script. An example can be seen here. This script must contain the batch job submission command (bsub/sbatch) since it gives the user the ability to customize the the batch submission. Overall, it can act as a wrapper for the code that will do the analysis on the data along with submitting the job.
The parameters that will be passed to the executable. Any number of name value pairs can be associated with a job definition. These are then made available to the above executable as environment variables. For example, in the above example, one can obtain the value of the parameter LOOP_COUNT (100) in a bash script by using ${LOOP_COUNT}. In addition, the following additional environment variables are made available to the script
JID_UPDATE_COUNTERS - This is a URL that can be used to update the progress of the job. These updates are also automatically reflected in the UI.
This defines where the analysis is done. While many experiments prefer to use the psana cluster (SLAC) to perform their analysis, some experiments prefer to use HPC facilities like NERSC to perform their analysis.
This defines the event that in the data management system that kicks off the job submission.
The job will be executed as this user.
Under the Workflow dropdown, select Control to create and check the status of your analysis jobs. The Control tab is where job definitions defined in the Definitions tab may be applied to experiment runs. An entry is automatically created for jobs that are triggered automatically. To manually trigger a job, in the drop-down menu of the Job column, select the job. A job can be triggered any number of times; each execution has a separate row in the UI.
These are the different statuses that a job can have -
There are four different actions which can be applied to a script. They do the following if pressed:
- Attempt to kill the job. A green success statement will appear near the top-right of the page if the job is killed successfully and a red failure statement will appear if the job is not killed successfully.
- Returns the log file for the job. If there is no log file or if no log file could be found, it will return blank.
- Returns details for the current job by invoking the the appropriate job details command in the HPC workload management infrastructure.
- Delete the job execution from the run. Note: this does not kill the job, it only removes it from the webpage.
This is a customizable column which can be used by the script executable to report progress. The script executable reports progress by posting JSON to a URL that is available as the environment variable JID_UPDATE_COUNTERS.
For example, to update the status of the job using bash, one can use
curl -s -XPOST ${JID_UPDATE_COUNTERS} -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '[ {"key": "<b>LoopCount</b>", "value": "'"${i}"'" } ]'
In Python, one can use
import os import requests requests.post(os.environ["JID_UPDATE_COUNTERS"], json=[ {"key": "<b>LoopCount</b>", "value": "75" } ])
The following example scripts live at /reg/g/psdm/web/ws/test/apps/release/logbk_batch_client/test/submit.sh and /reg/g/psdm/web/ws/test/apps/release/logbk_batch_client/test/submit.py.
The script that the hash corresponds to is the one that submits the job via the bsub command. This script is shown below.
#!/bin/bash ABS_PATH=/reg/g/psdm/web/ws/test/apps/logbk_batch_client/test bsub -q psdebugq -o $ABS_PATH/logs/%J.log python $ABS_PATH/submit.py "$@"
This script will run the batch job on psdebugq and store the log files in /reg/g/psdm/web/ws/test/apps/release/logbk_batch_client/test/logs/<lsf_id>. Also, it will pass all arguments passed to it to the python script, submit.py (these would be the parameters entered in the Batch defs tab).
The Python script is the code that will do analysis and whatever is necessary on the run data. Since this is just an example, the Python script, submit.py, doesn't get that involved. It is shown below.
from time import sleep from requests import post from sys import argv from os import environ from numpy import random from string import ascii_uppercase print 'This is a test function for the batch submitting.\n' ## Fetch the URL to POST to update_url = environ.get('BATCH_UPDATE_URL') print 'The update_url is:', update_url, '\n' ## Fetch the passed arguments as passed by submit.sh params = argv print 'The parameters passed are:' for n, param in enumerate(params): print 'Param %d:' % (n + 1), param print '\n' ## Run a loop, sleep a second, then POST for i in range(10): sleep(1) rand_char = random.choice(list(ascii_uppercase)) print 'Step: %d, %s' % (i + 1, rand_char) post(update_url, json={'counters' : {'Example Counter' : [i + 1, 'red'], 'Random Char' : rand_char}})
The print statements print out to the run's log file. The output of submit.py is below. The first parameter is the path to the Python script, the second is the experiment name, the third is the run number and the rest are the parameters passed to the script.
This is a test function for the batch submitting. The update_url is: http://psanaphi110:9843//ws/logbook/client_status/450 The parameters passed are: Param 1: /reg/g/psdm/web/ws/test/apps/logbk_batch_client/test/submit.py Param 2: xppi0915 Param 3: 134261 Param 4: param1 Param 5: param2 Step: 1, R Step: 2, J Step: 3, T Step: 4, P Step: 5, S Step: 6, B Step: 7, E Step: 8, K Step: 9, X Step: 10, V
Is it possible to submit more than one job per run?
Can a submitted job submit other subjobs?
When using the 'kill' option, how does ARP know which jobs to kill?
As far as I understand there is a json entry for each line which stores info, can one access this json entry somehow?
ws-kerb/batch_manager/ws/logbook/batches_status/<experiment_id>.
For example, this gives the batch processing status for experiment id 302
import requests from krtc import KerberosTicket from urllib.parse import urlparse ws_url = "https://pswww.slac.stanford.edu/ws-kerb/batch_manager/ws/logbook/batches_status/302" krbheaders = KerberosTicket("HTTP@" + urlparse(ws_url).hostname).getAuthHeaders() r = requests.get(ws_url, headers=krbheaders) print(r.json())