GlideinWMS

Build a testing application for distributed resources (entries) and GlideinWMS.
This application will interact with GlideinWMS components and send Glideins to explore and validate the resources.
It will further allow to customize the Glideins and replace standard components of the GlideinWMS framework with new ones than the user decides to test.

This project includes participation in the following activities:

• Provide input in the design of the testing application
• Getting familiar with distributed computing and GlideinWMS
• Development and integration related to distributed computing software for Grids, Clouds and Supercomputers (this will include Python and Web development):
  • Adapting components to talk the GlideinWMS protocol
  • Adding a UI to drive the testing
• Testing on clusters, High-Performance Computers and clouds
• Integration and release

Some shortcomings of the current system that should be improved and some suggestions:

• No flexible way to send pilots to specific resources
• No way to substitute standard scripts
• Manual client checking which resources are available, what's the status and letting the user decide how many pilots to send and where
• The code written should be in Python 3 (specifically 3.6)
• Consider migrating some of the code in GlideinWMS (e.g. protocol sending ClassAds) using python 3.6 and htcondor python bindings

Here a project doing something similar with shell scripts:
https://cms-htcondor-monitor.web.cern.ch/cms-htcondor-monitor/_book/emulated_pilot/
https://gitlab.cern.ch/CMSSI/cms_emulated_glidein