Speaker
Nick Smith
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Description
The HEPCloud Facility at Fermilab has now been in operation for six years. This facility is used to give a unified provisioning gateway to high performance computing centers, including NERSC, ORLF, and ALCF, other large supercomputers run by the NSF, and commercial clouds. HEPCloud delivers hundreds of millions of core-hours yearly for CMS. HEPCloud also serves other Fermilab experiments including DUNE, Mu2E, Muon g-2, and NOvA. In this paper we present the practical considerations of operating a distributed facility such as HEPCloud. We also mention some of the interesting research and development that HEPCloud has been used for including GPU-based machine learning inference servers, and tests of Quantum Computing.
Primary authors
Kyle Knoepfel
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Nick Smith
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Steven Timm
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
