IGWN Job Accounting¶

In order to keep track of how much computing is used for IGWN data processing - both to analyse current usage, and anticipate future needs - all jobs that are submitted must provide an IGWN Accounting Tag that idenfies the analysis being performed.

IGWN Accounting Tags¶

An IGWN Accounting tag is a period-delimited string following this schema

igwn.<purpose>.<observing run>.<group>.<pipeline>

with the following components:

• <purpose>: one of
  • dev: development
  • prod: production
  • sim: simulations
• <observing run>: the lowercase observing run ID, e.g. o3 (Observing Run 3)
• <group>: the lowercase common short name of the IGWN Working Group for which the work is performed, e.g. calibration
• <pipeline>: a short period-delimited ID for the pipeline being executed

For example:

igwn.prod.o4.calibration.online.gstlal

Specifying accounting information¶

All jobs must include the following command when submitting jobs:

accounting_group = <accounting-tag>

For example:

accounting_group = igwn.prod.o4.calibration.online.gstlal

Additionally, if the jobs are submitted from a shared user account, e.g. cbc, then accounting_group_user must be included to indicate which human being is responsible for those jobs, e.g:

accounting_group = igwn.prod.o4.calibration.online.gstlal
accounting_group_user = marie.curie

For more details on accounting tags, and how to select one, see

https://accounting.ligo.org/user

and for accounting data summaries, see

https://accounting.ligo.org

Full example¶

executable = /usr/bin/od
arguments = -An -N2 -i

input = /dev/random
output = /dev/null

accounting_group = igwn.prod.o4.calibration.online.gstlal

request_disk = 1MB
request_memory = 100MB

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