Shock-carc configuration

This page documents the configuration requirements for shock-carc.usc.edu, which will be used as a workflow submission host for CyberShake.

Functionality

Once shock-carc is fully configured, we would like to be able to:

• Have users on SCEC projects and the Pegasus team be able to log into shock-carc.
• Submit remote Condor jobs to Summit.
• Submit remote Condor jobs to Frontera.
• Create, plan, and run a Pegasus workflow, which interacts with CyberShake databases.

Hardware

• In addition to internal disk, 2 TB of local storage (preferred, but not required)

Software (installed by CARC)

• Linux OS (whatever default flavor CARC prefers is fine)
• HTCondor (latest stable version is 9.0.0)
• MariaDB (latest version of MariaDB is 10.5.9). MySQL is also fine.
• globus-url-copy (should be available in Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL))
• sqlite3, if not part of the OS
• screen, if not part of the OS
• ImageMagick, if not part of the OS
• Java 11 (11.0.11 is the latest)

Software (installed by SCEC)

• Pegasus will be installed by SCEC developers in user space, since we often build from source.
• OpenSHA will be installed by SCEC developers in user space.

Configuration

• HTCondor configuration is specified through two configuration files, condor_config and condor_config.local. CARC, the Pegasus team, and SCEC developers will work together to correctly set up these files. We anticipate that condor_config will be owned by user condor and thus require CARC to edit, but that condor_config.local will be owned by user scottcal.
• For MariaDB, permissions should be set up by CARC so that users can create and write to databases. Access to these databases should be restricted to localhost.
• To enable remote job submission, we request that CARC adds whitelisting exceptions for a short list of OLCF and TACC nodes, which will be provided separately.