Testing M100 PPC machines in production

[haozturk]

Actually, we're in the middle of our testing. So far, we managed to run GEN tasks of various workflows at PPC. Now, we're testing running a stepchain workflow. Updates will be posted in this issue.

[haozturk]

This is the stepchain workflow: https://cmsweb.cern.ch/reqmgr2/fetch?rid=haozturk_task_BPH-Run3Winter22GS-Backfill-00004__v1_T_221115_103602_3421

[spigad]

Hi @haozturk I confirm that I've tested the doc you provided. Everything work ok and I can backfill M100 via testbed (ITB)
So far so good. I think adding the support to the resubmit.py in order to allow to define a list of architectures might be helpfull but not really a priority now.

I'd share all this with @hufnagel as he might find this helpful ( and perhaps might have additional requirements for SUMMIT)

Thanks a lot for your support @haozturk

[haozturk]

@z4027163 asked which releases can be used for ppc. I'm pasting what @spigad told me before:

slc7_ppc64le_gcc9/cms/cmssw
CMSSW_11_2_0                  CMSSW_11_3_0_pre5      CMSSW_12_0_4
CMSSW_11_2_0_Patatrack        CMSSW_11_3_0_pre6      CMSSW_12_1_0
CMSSW_11_2_0_pre10            CMSSW_11_3_0_pre6_PY3  CMSSW_12_1_0_pre1
CMSSW_11_2_0_pre10_Patatrack  CMSSW_11_3_1           CMSSW_12_1_0_pre2
CMSSW_11_2_0_pre11            CMSSW_11_3_2           CMSSW_12_1_0_pre3
CMSSW_11_2_1                  CMSSW_11_3_3           CMSSW_12_1_0_pre4
CMSSW_11_2_1_Patatrack        CMSSW_11_3_4           CMSSW_12_1_0_pre5
CMSSW_11_2_2                  CMSSW_12_0_0           CMSSW_12_1_1
CMSSW_11_2_3                  CMSSW_12_0_0_pre1      CMSSW_12_2_0
CMSSW_11_2_3_Patatrack        CMSSW_12_0_0_pre2      CMSSW_12_2_0_pre1
CMSSW_11_2_4                  CMSSW_12_0_0_pre3      CMSSW_12_2_0_pre2
CMSSW_11_2_5                  CMSSW_12_0_0_pre4      CMSSW_12_2_0_pre3
CMSSW_11_3_0                  CMSSW_12_0_0_pre5      CMSSW_12_2_1
CMSSW_11_3_0_pre1             CMSSW_12_0_0_pre6      CMSSW_12_2_2
CMSSW_11_3_0_pre2             CMSSW_12_0_1           CMSSW_12_2_3
CMSSW_11_3_0_pre3             CMSSW_12_0_2           CMSSW_12_2_4
CMSSW_11_3_0_pre4             CMSSW_12_0_3           CMSSW_12_3_0_pre1

slc7_ppc64le_gcc11/cms/cmssw
CMSSW_12_3_0       CMSSW_12_3_0_pre4  CMSSW_12_3_1  CMSSW_12_4_0_pre1
CMSSW_12_3_0_pre2  CMSSW_12_3_0_pre5  CMSSW_12_3_2  CMSSW_12_4_0_pre2
CMSSW_12_3_0_pre3  CMSSW_12_3_0_pre6  CMSSW_12_3_3

slc7_ppc64le_gcc820/cms/cmssw
CMSSW_11_1_0                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre2
CMSSW_11_1_0_pre7            CMSSW_11_2_0_pre2_Patatrack
CMSSW_11_1_0_pre8            CMSSW_11_2_0_pre3
CMSSW_11_1_0_pre9_CANDIDATE  CMSSW_11_2_0_pre3_Patatrack
CMSSW_11_1_1                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre4
CMSSW_11_1_2                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre5
CMSSW_11_1_2_Patatrack       CMSSW_11_2_0_pre5_Patatrack
CMSSW_11_1_3                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre6
CMSSW_11_1_3_Patatrack       CMSSW_11_2_0_pre7
CMSSW_11_1_4                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre7_Patatrack
CMSSW_11_1_5                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre8
CMSSW_11_1_6                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre8_Patatrack
CMSSW_11_1_7                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre9
CMSSW_11_1_8                 CMSSW_11_2_0_pre9_Patatrack
CMSSW_11_2_0_pre1