README.rst

Analysis Facility Benchmark

https://af-benchmark.readthedocs.io

🏗️ Work in progress 🚧

This benchmark is designed for generic but comprehensive performance tests of the computing infrastructure at CMS Analysis Facilities. It currently includes the following functionality:

• Multiple options for code execution:
  • Sequential
  • Parallelized via concurrent.futures
  • Parallelized via Dask using local cluster
  • Parallelized via Dask using Gateway cluster
• Multiple data access options:
  • Explicit list of files or directories in local or mounted filesystem
  • List of files, blocks, or datasets at CMS DBS accessed via network, e.g. XRootD or XCache
• Loading and reading columns from NanoAOD ROOT files is done using uproot.
• Abstract "operation" with a given timeout executed by workers to emulate data processing during analysis.
• Time profiling
• Measuring size of columns in bytes