Conveners
EGI services for global software and common data distribution
- Catalin Condurache (STFC)
EGI services for global software and common data distribution: Getting Started with CernVM-FS or the Frontier Distributed Database Caching System
- Catalin Condurache (STFC)
- Rene Meusel (CERN)
- Dave Dykstra (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Description
The CernVM FileSystem (CernVM-FS) is firmly established as a method of software distribution for the LHC experiments at the WLCG sites. Use of CernVM-FS outside WLCG is growing steadily, its advantages being acknowledged by other HEP and non-HEP communities.
The session will explore why CernVM-FS makes easier for VOs to manage their software and run jobs at sites and also how this technology addresses the problem of application software installation at sites and what are the costs involved.
The workshop also compares CernVM-FS with the Frontier Distributed Database Caching system which uses the same http proxy cache infrastructure as CernVM-FS but is optimized for distributing common information from a database rather than software.
The second half of the session will be a hackathon that will help users with trying out the CernVM FileSystem and/or the Frontier Distributed Database Caching System with their own applications. Experts with these systems will advise users on whether their applications are a good fit and if so, help them adapt their applications to try CVMFS and/or Frontier.
