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Report number CERN-IT-Note-2007-031
Title Storage Resource Manager version 2.2 : design, implementation, and testing experience
Author(s) Donno, Flavia (CERN) ; Abadie, Lanna (CERN) ; Badino, Paolo (CERN) ; Baud, J P (CERN) ; Corso, Ezio (ICTP, Trieste) ; De Witt, Shaun (RAL) ; Fuhrmann, Patrick (DESY) ; Gu, Junmin (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Koblitz, Birger (CERN) ; Lemaitre, Sophie (CERN) ; Litmaath, Maarten (CERN) ; Litvintsev, Dimitry (Fermilab) ; Lo Presti, Giuseppe (CERN) ; Magnoni, Luca (CNAF, Bologna) ; McCance, Gavin (CERN) ; Mkrtchan, Tigran (DESY) ; Mollon, Rémi (CERN) ; Natarajan, Vijaya (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Perelmutov, Timur (Fermilab) ; Petravick, Don (Fermilab) ; Shoshani, Arie (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Sim, Alex (LBNL) ; Smith, David (CERN) ; Tedesco, Paolo (CERN) ; Zappi, Riccardo (INFN, CNAF)
Corporate Author(s) CERN. Geneva. IT Department
Collaboration GD
Publication 2008
Imprint 31 Oct 2007
Number of pages 10
In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 119 (2008) 062028
In: International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Victoria, Canada, 2 - 7 Sep 2007, pp.062028
DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/119/6/062028
Subject category Computing and Computers
Free keywords SRM ; Storage Services ; Grid ; Test ; WLCG ; CASTOR ; StoRM ; BeStMan ; DPM ; dCache
Abstract Storage Services are crucial components of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Infrastructure spanning more than 200 sites and serving computing and storage resources to the High Energy Physics LHC communities. Up to tens of Petabytes of data are collected every year by the four LHC experiments at CERN. To process these large data volumes it is important to establish a protocol and a very efficient interface to the various storage solutions adopted by the WLCG sites. In this work we report on the experience acquired during the definition of the Storage Resource Manager v2.2 protocol. In particular, we focus on the study performed to enhance the interface and make it suitable for use by the WLCG communities. At the moment 5 different storage solutions implement the SRM v2.2 interface: BeStMan (LBNL), CASTOR (CERN and RAL), dCache (DESY and FNAL), DPM (CERN), and StoRM (INFN and ICTP). After a detailed inside review of the protocol, various test suites have been written identifying the most effective set of tests: the S2 test suite from CERN and the SRM-Tester test suite from LBNL. Such test suites have helped verifying the consistency and coherence of the proposed protocol and validating existing implementations. We conclude our work describing the results achieved.
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