17–21 Oct 2016
LBNL
US/Pacific timezone

Running HEP Workloads on the NERSC HPC Systems

21 Oct 2016, 10:45
25m
Building 50 Auditorium (LBNL)

Building 50 Auditorium

LBNL

Berkeley, CA 94720
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation Grid, Cloud and Virtualisation

Speaker

Tony Quan (LBL)

Description

Running HEP workloads on a Cray system can be challenging since these systems typically don't look very much look a standard Linux system. This presentation will describe several tools NERSC has deployed to enhance HEP and other data intensive computing: Shifter, a docker-like container technology developed at NERSC, the Burst Buffer, a super fast IO layer, and a software defined network that allows high speed connections to the outside world. We will give an overview of the software and hardware architecture, deployment, and performance of these services.

Primary authors

D. Paul (LBL) Deborah BARD (LBL) Doug Jacobsen (LBL) James Botts (LBNL) Lisa Gerhardt (LBNL) Shane Cannon (LBL) T DeClerck (LBL) Tony Quan (LBL) Wahid Bhimji (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Presentation materials