May 21 – 24, 2018
Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus
America/Chicago timezone

Automatic for the People: Containers for LIGO software development on the Open Science Grid and other diverse computing resources

May 23, 2018, 11:05 AM
20m
Howard Auditorium (Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus)

Howard Auditorium

Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

601 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53715-1035

Speaker

Thomas Downes (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

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I registered to attend on May 22nd and 23rd (you should double check this) rather than the whole conference because I'll also be traveling to Madison for Hepix the week prior.

I'll be driving from Milwaukee the morning of the 22nd, so safest not to have me present prior to 10am.

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Distributed research organizations are faced with wide variation in computing environments to support. LIGO has historically resolved this problem by providing RPM/DEB packages for (pre-)production software and coordination between clusters operated by LIGO-affiliated facilities and research groups. This has been largely successful although it leaves a gap in operating system support and in the development process prior to formal point releases.

We describe early developments in LIGO’s use of GitLab, GitHub, and DockerHub to continuously deploy researcher-maintained containers for immediate use on all LIGO clusters, the Open Science Grid, and user workstations. Typical latencies are below an hour, dominated by the build-time of the software itself and the client refresh rate of the CernVM File System

Primary author

Thomas Downes (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Presentation materials