16–20 Oct 2017
KEK
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Migrating a WLCG tier-2 to a Cray XC-50 at CSCS-LCG2

18 Oct 2017, 11:50
25m
KEK

KEK

1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan 36°09'01.0"N 140°04'28.1"E 36.150290, 140.074485
Computing & Batch Services Computing and batch systems

Speaker

Francesco Giovanni Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH))

Description

Founded in 1991, CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, develops and provides the key supercomputing capabilities required to solve important problems to science and/or society. The centre enables world-class research and provides resources to academia, industry and the business sector. Through an agreement with CHIPP, the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, CSCS hosts a WLCG tier-2 site, delivering computing and storage services to the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments. In this presentation, we will describe the ongoing efforts in migrating all the tier-2 compute workloads for the served experiments from a dedicated x86_64 cluster that has been in continuous operation and evolution since 2007, to Piz Daint, the current European flagship HPC, which ranks third in the TOP500 at the time of writing.

Desired length 20

Primary authors

Francesco Giovanni Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH)) Miguel Gila (ETH Zurich)

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