Over the last 18 months we have investigated the use of the 80-core Ampere Altra for WLCG workloads and have previously reported that for WLCG workloads this ARM-based machine delivers significant energy-savings whilst being comparable in both speed and cost to typical AMD machines. More recently we have extended this work to the 128-core Ampere Altra Max and will present these results for the...
HEPScore is a new CPU benchmark created by the HEPIX Benchmark Working Group to replace the HEPSPEC06 benchmark that is currently used by the WLCG for procurement, computing resource pledges and performance studies.
The development of the new benchmark, based on HEP applications or workloads, has involved many contributions from software developers, data analysts, experts of the...
The 2023 edition of the HTCondor workshop in Europe, an annual event mostly targeted at current and future administrators of HTCondor instances, was held at IJCLab in Orsay (France, Paris region) from 19 to 22 September. This contribution will give a short report of the highlights.
