Parrot LHC Tests

[dthain]

@jblomer writes:

Following the discussions at the CernVM workshop, I create a set of scripts that start the software frameworks of the four LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb under parrot https://github.com/jblomer/parrot-test

You can use the lhc.sh script like this:

./lhc.sh alice
PARROT_RUN=/path/to/parrot_run ./lhc.sh atlas
PARROT_OPTIONS="-d cvmfs" ./lhc.sh cms
HTTP_PROXY="http://my-proxy:3128" ./lhc.sh lhcb

The lhc.sh script sources ${TESTCASE_PATH}/setup.sh if it exists, changes into the workspace sub directory and executes the ${TESTCASE_PATH}/run.sh script. The LHC applications are rather resource hungry, I gave them a few GB free disk space and 4G memory. The alice test case requires the compat-libgfortran-41 package.

I tested the latest released cctools as well as the development head from github against cvmfs 2.1.20 https://ecsft.cern.ch/dist/cvmfs/cvmfs-2.1.20/ both on Scientific Linux 6 and on CernVM, which is an SL6 on top of a vanilla 3.10 Linux kernel:

     HEAD, 3.10    release, 3.10    HEAD, SL6    release, SL6

atlas no [1] no [2] yes no [2] alice no [3] no [3] no [3] no [3] lhcb no [4] no [4] no [4] no [4] cms yes [5] yes [5] yes [5] yes [5]

[1] The message "/tmp/asetup_dV7BNJ.sh: line 262: cd: /home/atlas/parrot-test/workspace: Cannot allocate memory" appear, but the test continues until at a later point the out-of-memory killer kicks in [2] Segmentation fault in CMT, which is the tool to setup the environment variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH) [3] symlink from the workspace into /cvmfs/alice-ocdb.cern.ch do not resolve [4] CMT can’t setup the environment (SetupProject call) [5] cms would benefit from the possibility to resolve a symlink /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch/SITECONF/local —> /my/local/path

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[batrick]

Closing this since @jblomer reports all tests complete with master.