Speaker
Prof.
Martin Sevior
(University of Melbourne)
Description
The SuperBelle project to increase the Luminosity of the KEKB collider
by a factor 50 will search for Physics beyond the Standard Model through
precision measurements and the investigation of rare processes in
Flavour Physics. The data rate expected from the experiment is
comparable to a current era LHC experiment with commensurate Computing
needs. Incorporating commercial cloud computing, such as that provided
the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), into the SuperBelle computing
model may provide a lower Total Cost of Ownership for the SuperBelle
computing solution.
To investigate this possibility, we have deployed the complete Belle
Monte-Carlo simulation chain on EC2 to benchmark the cost and
performance of the service. This presentation will describe how this was
achieved as well as the bottlenecks and costs of large-scale Monte-Carlo
production on EC2.
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Martin Sevior is Associate Professor at the School of Physics at the
University of Melbourne. He is a member of the Belle and ATLAS
experiments and has been involved with Grid computing since 2001. He is
also a core contributor to the Open Source Wordprocessor, AbiWord.
Authors
Prof.
Martin Sevior
(University of Melbourne)
Prof.
Nobuhiko Katayama
(HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION)
Mr
Tom Fifield
(University of Melbourne)
