JupyterLab has become an increasingly popular platform for rapid prototyping, teaching algorithms or sharing small analyses in a self-documenting manner.
However, it is commonly operated using dedicated cloud-like infrastructures (e.g. Kubernetes) which often need to be maintained in addition to existing HTC systems. Furthermore, federation of resources or opportunistic usage are not...
Exploitation of heterogeneous opportunistic resources is an important ingredient to fulfil the computing requirements of large HEP experiments in the future. Potential candidates for integration are Tier 3 centres, idling cores in HPC centres, cloud resources, etc. To make this work, it is essential to choose a technology which offers an easy integration of those resources into the computing...
On March 2020, INFN-T1 started the process of moving all the Worker Nodes managed by LSF to the HTCondor batch system, which was set up and tested in the previous months and was considered ready to handle the workload of the whole computing cluster. On March 20, while in the middle of the migration process, a sudden request came to provide 50% of our computing power for a period of one month...
Following up from the work of the HEPiX benchmarking working group, WLCG launched a task force primarily tasked to concretely propose a successor to HEP-SPEC 06 as standard benchmark for CPU resources in WLCG. We will present an overview of the
mandate and composition of the task force and will report on status and plans.
Since 2 years the HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group has been developing a benchmark based on actual software workloads of the High Energy Physics community, called HEPscore. This approach, based on container technologies, is designed to provide a benchmark that is better correlated with the actual throughput of the experiment production workloads. In addition, the procedures to run and collect...
BNL's first institutional cluster is reaching the end of life, and it has started the process of replacing its capabilities with new resources. This presentation reviews historical usage of existing resources and describes the replacement process, including timelines, composition and plans for expansion of the user community that will use the new resources.
