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Description
The ATLAS experiment is using large High Performance Computers (HPC's) and fine grained simulation workflows (Event Service) to produce fully simulated events in an efficient manner. ATLAS has developed a new software component (Harvester) which provides resource provisioning and workload shaping. In order to run effectively on the largest HPC machines, ATLAS develop Yoda-Droid software to orchestrate the MPI communication between Harvester and the simulation payload running on over 1000 nodes simultaneously. In this way over 130,000 cores can simultaneously produce simulated Monte Carlo events for ATLAS. The PanDA system also had to be changed to produce "jumbo jobs" capable of simulated over 1 Million events per submission to the local HPC scheduling systems.
This presentation will describe in detail the changes to PanDA to enable jumbo jobs and the Yoda-Droid software. Scaling and efficiency measurements will be presented. Results from deployment, integration and operation of the new software at the Titan, Cori and Theta HPC machines will be shown.
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