10–14 Oct 2016
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Scaling Up a CMS Tier-3 Site with Campus Resources and a 100 Gb/s Network Connection: What Could Go Wrong?

13 Oct 2016, 15:30
1h 15m
San Francisco Marriott Marquis

San Francisco Marriott Marquis

Poster Track 6: Infrastructures Posters B / Break

Speakers

Anna Elizabeth Woodard (University of Notre Dame (US)) Matthias Wolf (University of Notre Dame (US))

Description

The University of Notre Dame (ND) CMS group operates a modest-sized Tier-3 site suitable for local, final-stage analysis of CMS data. However, through the ND Center for Research Computing (CRC), Notre Dame researchers have opportunistic access to roughly 25k CPU cores of computing and a 100 Gb/s WAN network link. To understand the limits of what might be possible in this scenario, we undertook to use these resources for a wide range of CMS computing tasks from user analysis through large-scale Monte Carlo production (including both detector simulation and data reconstruction.) We will discuss the challenges inherent in effectively utilizing CRC resources for these tasks and the solutions deployed to overcome those challenges. We will also discuss current performance and potential for future refinements as well as interactions with the broader CMS computing infrastructure.

Primary Keyword (Mandatory) Computing facilities

Authors

Anna Elizabeth Woodard (University of Notre Dame (US)) Matthias Wolf (University of Notre Dame (US))

Co-authors

Benjamin Tovar (University of Notre Dame) Douglas Thain (University of Notre Dame) Kenyi Paolo Hurtado Anampa (University of Notre Dame (US)) Kevin Patrick Lannon (University of Notre Dame (US)) Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US)) Patrick Donnelly (University of Notre Dame) Paul Brenner (University of Notre Dame)

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