Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2012

Building a local analysis center on OpenStack

22 May 2012, 13:30

4h 45m

Rosenthal Pavilion (10th floor) (Kimmel Center)

Poster Distributed Processing and Analysis on Grids and Clouds (track 3) Poster Session

Speaker

Martin Sevior (University of Melbourne (AU))

Description

The experimental high energy physics group at the University of Melbourne is a member of the ATLAS, Belle and Belle II collaborations. We maintain a local data centre which enables users to test pre-production code and to do final stage data analysis. Recently the Australian National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) organisation implemented a Research Cloud based on OpenStack middlewear. This presentation details the development of an OpenStack-based local data analysis centre compromising hundreds of virtual machines with commensurate data storage.