Speaker
Dr
Tony Chan
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB)
Description
The operation and management of a heterogeneous large-scale, multi-purpose computer
cluster is a complex task given the competing nature of requests for resources by a
large, world-wide user base. Besides providing the bulk of the computational
resources to experiments at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC), this large
cluster is part of the U.S. Tier 1 Computing Center for the ATLAS experiment at the
LHC, and it provides support to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project. A
description of the existing and planned upgrades in infrastructure, hardware and
software architecture that allow efficient usage of computing and distributed storage
resources by a geographically diverse user base will be given, followed by a
description of near and medium-term computing trends that will play a role in the
future growth and direction of this computer cluster.
Primary authors
Mr
Alex Withers
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Dr
Bruce Gibbard
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Mr
Chris Hollowell
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Mr
Jason Smith
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Dr
Ofer Rind
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Mr
Richard Hogue
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Mr
Rob Petkus
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Dr
Tom Throwe
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Dr
Tomasz Wlodek
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Dr
Tony Chan
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB)
