Distributed Processing Environment

DPE Deployment Status

Date DGT IGT PG
Dec, 29, 2004 DPE2_8_0    
Oct, 15, 2004 DPE2_7_0    
Jul, 19, 2004 DPE2_6_0    
Apr, 13, 2004 FNAL KCA certificate expires on April, 23rd!
All DPE caches have been updated accordingly to include new FNAL KCA certificate. Please see details in the release notes:
DPE2_5_1 DPE2_4_2, DPE2_3_1, DPE2_2_4, DPE2_1_1
Apr, 7, 2004 DPE2_5_0    
Mar, 9, 2004 DPE2_4_1    
Dec, 1, 2003 DPE2_4_0 DPE2_4_0 DPE2_4_0
November, 4, 2003 DPE2_2_3 DPE2_3_0 DPE2_2_3
October, 15, 2003 DPE2_2_3 DPE1_5 DPE2_2_3
October, 2, 2003 DPE2_2_2
DPE1_5  
September, 25, 2003 DPE2_2_1
DPE1_5  
September, 18, 2003 DPE2_2_0
waiting for VDT 1.1.11
DPE1_5  
September, 2, 2003 DPE2_1_0 DPE1_5  
July 23, 2003 DPE2_0_1 DPE1_5  
July 22, 2003 DPE2_0_0 DPE1_5  
June 23, 2003   DPE1_5  
May 23, 2003 DPE1_5    
February 28, 2003 N/A DPE1_0 N/A

This page is maintained by the DPE Release Manager. Click on the links to obtain detailed DPE release descriptions.

DPE Meeting Minutes

The minutes of DPE meetings will be archived here. Coordinates info:
  • Meetings generally take place every second Tuesday at 3:00 PM at Fermilab, WH9X Conference Room.
  • ECS phone number: 1-510-665-5437, Meeting ID: 3923, and phones open at 2:45 PM on the meeting day (or 15 minutes before meeting time.)
  • VRVS meeting room changes from meeting to meeting, but will have the title "DPE Meeting" and generally opens at 2:30 PM on the meeting day (or 30 minutes before meeting time.)
    The standing password is "tralfaz."
  • Polycom IP number is 131.225.84.214
Note that this information may change; watch the dpe-discuss@fnal.gov mailing list for details.
DateAgendaMinutesSupporting Docs
August 3, 2004 agenda minutes Yujun's Slides
July 8, 2004 agenda minutes Preliminary API
June 3, 2004 agenda minutes .
May 25, 2004 agenda minutes .
March 31, 2004
Combined Tier-2 Facilities/DPE
agenda minutes Jorge's PPT
March 15, 2004 agenda minutes Anzar's New PPT
March 2, 2004 agenda minutes Anzar's PPT
December 18, 2003 agenda minutes N/A
December 2, 2003 agenda minutes N/A
November 13, 2003 agenda minutes N/A

DPE Release Management Guideline

The purpose of the page is to establish and announce information about USCMS grid, particularly, various versions of the Distributed Production Environment (DPE) software on various sites. An overview of the software lifecycle process underlying DPE is available here. A graphical view of the role of DPE in the context of the USCMSSC project is available here. Check here for presentations and SC2002 demonstrations on DPE. To maintain consistencies of the grid deployment, various versions of DPE software will be installed on DGT, IGT and PG. Deployment of various versions of DPE will be posted below.

The DPE environment, distributed over the USCMSSC computing grid, consists of the following major software packages:

  • CMS application: software packages to conduct physics simulation and production. Details of CMS applications, ORCA, COBRA and others can be found at http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cmsoo/cmsoo.html. Install from http://computing.fnal.gov/cms/software/ using Dar
  • Job management : software packages used for job creation, submission, and general purpose handling. Currently, it includes two software packages, MCRunJob and MOP. More information available from http://ppdg.net
  • Grid middleware: software packages, for example VDT, to manage grid tasks. This category includes software for grid workload management, grid data management, and grid monitoring Services. More information available from http://www.ivdgl.org
  • Fabric and mass storage management: various software packages to manage farms and batch systems and data storage. Install fbsng from http://www-isd.fnal.gov/fbsng/and fbsng-pbs from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
  • Virtual organization software: various software packages related to grid authorization and authentication. Install groupman from http://groupman.sourceforge.net/index.php

DPE Promotion Criteria

To install a DPE version on IGT, and eventually onn PG, following promotion criteria must be followed:

  • All components of a DPE version must be tested on DGT by the the DGT coordinator
  • IGT coordinator must approve the installation of the DPE on IGT by updating the DPE version description on this web page and announcing the the approval
  • All IGT site managers must install the DPE version as prescribed in this webpage.