Did you ever need hundreds of state-of-the-art nodes that you could use to scalably test new ideas on? Run experiments that are not disrupted by what other users are doing? A platform that allows you to reinstall the operating system, recompile the kernel, and gives you access to the console so that you can debug the system? A place where your research team can easily reproduce experiments...
The Tier-1 at CNAF is the main INFN computing facility offering computing and storage resources to more than 30 different scientific collaborations including the 4 experiments at the LHC. A huge increase in computing needs is foreseen in the next years mainly driven by the experiments at the LHC (especially starting with the run 3 from 2021) but also by other upcoming experiments such as...
This contribution reports on solutions, experiences and recent developments with the dynamic, on-demand provisioning of remote computing resources for analysis and simulation workflows. Local resources of a physics institute are extended by private and commercial cloud sites, ranging from the inclusion of desktop clusters over institute clusters to HPC centers.
We report on recent...
Overview of what has happened in HNSciCloud over the last five months
In IHEP, more large scientific facilities requests more computing resources. Management of large scale resources requests efficient and flexible system architecture. Virtual computing through cloud technical is an approach. IHEPCloud is a private LaaS cloud which supports multi-users and multi-projects to achieve virtual computing. In this paper, we describe the infrastructure of virtual...
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...
We provide an update on our continued experiments with container orchestration at the RAL Tier 1.
OpenStack is an open source software for creating private and public clouds.It controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. Hundreds of the world’s largest brands rely on OpenStack to run their businesses every day, reducing costs and helping them move faster.
We are applying this computing...
