Azure HPC Cache data ingest - parallel copy script method

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This article gives instructions for creating the parallelcp script and using it to move data to a Blob storage container for use with Azure HPC Cache.

To learn more about moving data to Blob storage for your Azure HPC Cache, read Move data to Azure Blob storage.

Create the parallelcp script

The script below will add the executable parallelcp. (This script is designed for Ubuntu; if using another distribution, you must install parallel separately.)

sudo touch /usr/bin/parallelcp && sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/parallelcp && sudo sh -c "/bin/cat >/usr/bin/parallelcp" <<EOM
#!/bin/bash

display_usage() {
    echo -e "\nUsage: \$0 SOURCE_DIR DEST_DIR\n"
}

if [  \$# -le 1 ] ; then
    display_usage
    exit 1
fi

if [[ ( \$# == "--help") ||  \$# == "-h" ]] ; then
    display_usage
    exit 0
fi

SOURCE_DIR="\$1"
DEST_DIR="\$2"

if [ ! -d "\$SOURCE_DIR" ] ; then
    echo "Source directory \$SOURCE_DIR does not exist, or is not a directory"
    display_usage
    exit 2
fi

if [ ! -d "\$DEST_DIR" ] && ! mkdir -p \$DEST_DIR ; then
    echo "Destination directory \$DEST_DIR does not exist, or is not a directory"
    display_usage
    exit 2
fi

if [ ! -w "\$DEST_DIR" ] ; then
    echo "Destination directory \$DEST_DIR is not writeable, or is not a directory"
    display_usage
    exit 3
fi

if ! which parallel > /dev/null ; then
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install -y parallel
fi

DIRJOBS=225
JOBS=225
find \$SOURCE_DIR -mindepth 1 -type d -print0 | sed -z "s/\$SOURCE_DIR\///" | parallel --will-cite -j\$DIRJOBS -0 "mkdir -p \$DEST_DIR/{}"
find \$SOURCE_DIR -mindepth 1 ! -type d -print0 | sed -z "s/\$SOURCE_DIR\///" | parallel --will-cite -j\$JOBS -0 "cp -P \$SOURCE_DIR/{} \$DEST_DIR/{}"
EOM

Parallel copy example

This example uses the parallel copy script to compile glibc using source files in the Azure HPC Cache.

The source files are cached in the Azure HPC Cache mount point, and the object files are stored on the local hard drive.

This example uses the parallel copy script with the option -j and make to gain parallelization.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install -y gcc bison gcc binutils make parallel
cd
wget https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/libc/glibc-2.27.tar.bz2
tar jxf glibc-2.27.tar.bz2
ln -s /nfs/cache1 hpccache
time parallelcp glibc-2.27 avere/glibc-2.27
cd
mkdir obj
mkdir usr
cd obj
/home/azureuser/avere/glibc-2.27/configure --prefix=/home/azureuser/usr
time make -j