https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125102035
Analysis of data integrity and storage quality of a distributed storage system
1 Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
2 European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
Published online: 23 August 2021
CERN uses the world’s largest scientific computing grid, WLCG, for distributed data storage and processing. Monitoring of the CPU and storage resources is an important and essential element to detect operational issues in its systems, for example in the storage elements, and to ensure their proper and efficient function. The processing of experiment data depends strongly on the data access quality, as well as its integrity and both of these key parameters must be assured for the data lifetime. Given the substantial amount of data, O(200 PB), already collected by ALICE and kept at various storage elements around the globe, scanning every single data chunk would be a very expensive process, both in terms of computing resources usage and in terms of execution time. In this paper, we describe a distributed file crawler that addresses these natural limits by periodically extracting and analyzing statistically significant samples of files from storage elements, evaluates the results and is integrated with the existing monitoring solution, MonALISA.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
