Running HySDS Verdi Job Worker on Pleiades
HySDS PCM in AWS can also be used to control Verdi job workers in HECC cluster (e.g. Pleiades), AWS, on-premise. For Pleiades, the job workers can call home to PCM via VPN, ssh port tunnel, VPN, or AWS Transit Gateway.
The control of compute nodes in Pleiades is designed to parallel auto-scaling approach in AWS. We separate the queue from scaling logic, auto-scaler that sets desired nodes, from auto-scaling service, from the infrastructure itself. Here we use PBS as analogous to the auto-scaling service.
The verdi job workers on Pleiades then can call back to PCM in AWS via secured tunnels using direct ssh passthrough as suggested by NAS. https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/setting-up-ssh-passthrough_232.html
In this design, verdi job workers call home via secure ssh remote port tunnels through a head node to PCM components for rabbitmq, redis, ES, and REST API calls. But for all other larger traffic (e.g. AWS S3 transfer), the transfers are routed to a separate NAT head node
Compute node types available on Pleiades HECC
source: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/pbs-resource-request-examples_188.html
Processor Type | SBU Rate/Node | Memory/Node |
Cascade Lake | 1.64 (40 cores/node) | 192 GB |
Skylake | 1.59 (40 cores/node) | 192 GB |
Broadwell | 1.00 (28 cores/node) | 128 GB |
Haswell | 0.80 (24 cores/node) | 128 GB |
Ivy Bridge | 0.66 (20 cores/node) | 64 GB |
Sandy Bridge | 0.47 (16 cores/node) | 32 GB |
pfe21% node_stats.sh
Node summary according to PBS:
Nodes Available on Pleiades : 11137 cores: 239872
Nodes Available on Aitken : 1140 cores: 45600
Nodes Available on Electra : 3433 cores: 123532
Nodes Available on Merope : 1520 cores: 18240
Nodes Down Across NAS : 163
Nodes used/free by hardware type:
SandyBridge cores/node:(16) Total: 1843, Used: 1628, Free: 215
IvyBridge (20) Total: 5204, Used: 5111, Free: 93
Haswell (24) Total: 2038, Used: 1959, Free: 79
Broadwell (28) Total: 1990, Used: 1794, Free: 196
Broadwell (Electra) (28) Total: 1149, Used: 1145, Free: 4
Skylake (Electra) (40) Total: 2284, Used: 2250, Free: 34
Cascadelake (Aitken) (40) Total: 1140, Used: 1048, Free: 92
Nodes currently allocated to the gpu queue:
Sandybridge Total: 62, Used: 3, Free: 59
Skylake Total: 17, Used: 17, Free: 0
Nodes currently allocated to the devel queue:
SandyBridge Total: 92, Used: 21, Free: 71
IvyBridge Total: 732, Used: 687, Free: 45
Haswell Total: 203, Used: 129, Free: 74
Broadwell Total: 286, Used: 227, Free: 59
Electra (Broadwell) Total: 0, Used: 0, Free: 0
Electra (Skylake) Total: 325, Used: 325, Free: 0
Aitken (Cascadelake) Total: 0, Used: 0, Free: 0
Merope nodes used/free by hardware type:
Westmere (12) Total: 1520, Used: 727, Free: 793
Jobs on Pleiades are:
requesting: 0 SandyBridge, 4712 IvyBridge, 812 Haswell, 2760 Broadwell,
275 Electra (B), 1558 Electra (S), 1629 Aitken (C) nodes
using: 1628 SandyBridge, 5111 IvyBridge, 1959 Haswell, 1794 Broadwell,
1145 Electra (B), 2250 Electra (S), 1048 Aitken (C) nodes
Queues for Pleiades, Aitken, and Electra Users
source: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/pbs-job-queue-structure_187.html
qstat -Q
Queue NCPUs/ Time/ name max/def max/def pr ======= =====/=== ======/====== === low --/ 8 04:00/ 00:30 -10 normal --/ 8 08:00/ 01:00 0 long --/ 8 120:00/ 01:00 0 debug --/ 8 02:00/ 00:30 15 devel --/ 1 02:00/ -- 149
Running Jobs Before Dedicated Time
source: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/running-jobs-before-dedicated-time_306.html
The PBS batch scheduler supports a feature called shrink-to-fit (STF)
qsub -l min_walltime=6:00:00,max_walltime=168:00:00 job_worker-singularity.sh
This says if the Pleiades can fit 90-minute jobs, then go ahead and dispatch our PBS jobs for job_worker-singularity.sh
CLI to PBS
#PBS -l select=xx:ncpus=yy:model=zz
For Broadwell
#PBS -l select=10:ncpus=28:model=bro
For Haswell#PBS -l select=10:ncpus=24:mpiprocs=24:model=has
For Ivy Bridge#PBS -l select=12:ncpus=20:mpiprocs=20:model=ivy
For Sandy Bridge#PBS -l select=15:ncpus=16:mpiprocs=16:model=san
Running one verdi per compute node with shrink-to-fit
use select=1 for 1-node per verdi job, but submit many with shrink-to-fit.
qsub -l min_walltime=2:00:00,max_walltime=168:00:00 job_worker-singularity.sh
This requests Pleiades to schedule verdi if have even 2-hours available. That would be enough time to run one nominal processing job.
where the job_worker-singularity.sh contains:
#PBS -l select=1:ncpus=28:model=bro
What happens to the job worker when PBS kills the job?
On the verdi job worker that is running as a PBS job, when PBS kills the job (e.g. when the max time limit is reached), the verdi worker will gracefully exit. On HySDS PCM Mozrt/figaro, a WorkerLostError event is detected.
On the Pleiades verdi job worker log, we may see the following when PBS kills the job:
[2020-03-21 19:50:52,151: INFO/ForkPoolWorker-1] hysds.job_worker.run_job[f7aecba3-9fa6-4dd6-9886-a9e26ebc34c5]: cmdLine: /nasa/singularity/3.5.3/bin/singularity exec --no-home --home /home/ops --bind /nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/jobs:/nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/jobs --bind /nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/tasks:/nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/tasks --bind /nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/workers:/nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/workers --bind /nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/cache:/nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/cache:ro --bind /home1/lpan/.netrc:/home/ops/.netrc:ro --bind /home1/lpan/.aws:/home/ops/.aws:ro --bind /home1/lpan/verdi/etc/settings.conf:/home/ops/ariamh/conf/settings.conf:ro --bind /home1/lpan/verdi/ops/hysds/celeryconfig.py:/celeryconfig.py:ro --bind /home1/lpan/verdi/etc/datasets.json:/datasets.json:ro --pwd /nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/jobs/2020/03/22/02/41/standard_product-s1gunw-topsapp-singularity__standard-product_singularity_singularity-S1-GUNW-ifg-cfg-RM-M1S3-TN121-20200104T001038-20191223T000947-poeorb-57b1-20200320T214325.678639Z /nobackupp12/lpan/worker/workdir/2020/03/20/20200320T211158-pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov/cache/container-leipan_ariamh_standard-product_singularity-2020-03-13-4c4f48280c76.simg /home/ops/ariamh/interferogram/sentinel/create_standard_product_s1.sh
[2020-03-21 19:50:52,153: INFO/ForkPoolWorker-1] hysds.job_worker.run_job[f7aecba3-9fa6-4dd6-9886-a9e26ebc34c5]: Pre-processing steps all signaled continuation.worker: Warm shutdown (MainProcess)
[2020-03-21 21:13:53,899: ERROR/MainProcess] Process 'ForkPoolWorker-1' pid:37170 exited with 'signal 15 (SIGTERM)'
[2020-03-21 21:13:54,039: ERROR/MainProcess] Task handler raised error: WorkerLostError('Worker exited prematurely: signal 15 (SIGTERM).')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/worker/worker.py", line 205, in start
self.blueprint.start(self)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/bootsteps.py", line 119, in start
step.start(parent)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/bootsteps.py", line 369, in start
return self.obj.start()
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/worker/consumer/consumer.py", line 318, in start
blueprint.start(self)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/bootsteps.py", line 119, in start
step.start(parent)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/worker/consumer/consumer.py", line 596, in start
c.loop(*c.loop_args())
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/worker/loops.py", line 83, in asynloop
next(loop)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kombu/asynchronous/hub.py", line 306, in create_loop
events = poll(poll_timeout)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kombu/utils/eventio.py", line 84, in poll
return self._epoll.poll(timeout if timeout is not None else -1)
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/apps/worker.py", line 284, in _handle_request
raise exc(exitcode)
celery.exceptions.WorkerShutdown: 0During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home1/lpan/verdi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/billiard/pool.py", line 1267, in mark_as_worker_lost
human_status(exitcode)),
billiard.exceptions.WorkerLostError: Worker exited prematurely: signal 15 (SIGTERM).
zone: PST8PDT -------------- celery@pleiades_worker.8356683.pbspl1.nas.nasa.gov v4.4.0rc3 (cliffs)
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--- * *** * -- Linux-4.12.14-95.40.1.20191112-nasa-x86_64-with-SuSE-12-x86_64 2020-03-20 21:12:00
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The two relevant log entries are:
worker: Warm shutdown (MainProcess)
Task handler raised error: WorkerLostError('Worker exited prematurely: signal 15 (SIGTERM).')
Local RAM “drive” for faster scratch disk
On Pleiades, each compute node does not have any on-board disk storage (sImilar to AWS’s EBS-only EC2 instance types). Using this instead of NFS file system for work dir will significantly improve performance.
PBS jobs also have an available environment variable ${TMPDIR} in PBS job, which defaults to /tmp/pbs.job_id on the vnodes.
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/pbs-environment-variables_178.html