Paper Info
Title
HEPCloud, a New Paradigm for HEP Facilities: CMS Amazon Web Services Investigation.
Abstract
Historically, high energy physics computing has been performed on large purpose-built computing systems. These began as single-site compute facilities, but have evolved into the distributed computing grids used today. Recently, there has been an exponential increase in the capacity and capability of commercial clouds. Cloud resources are highly virtualized and intended to be able to be flexibly deployed for a variety of computing tasks. There is a growing interest among the cloud providers to demonstrate the capability to perform large-scale scientific computing. In this paper, we discuss results from the CMS experiment using the Fermilab HEPCloud facility, which utilized both local Fermilab resources and virtual machines in the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud. We discuss the planning, technical challenges, and lessons learned involved in performing physics workflows on a large-scale set of virtualized resources. In addition, we will discuss the economics and operational efficiencies when executing workflows both in the cloud and on dedicated resources.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
Computing and Software for Big Science
High energy physics, Computing, Cloud, Amazon web services
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1710.00100
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
18
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Burt Holzman1293.60
Lothar Bauerdick200.34
Brian Bockelman302.03
Dave Dykstra400.68
Ian Fisk500.34
Stuart Fuess601.01
Gabriele Garzoglio7566.60
Maria Girone801.01
Oliver Gutsche900.34
Dirk Hufnagel1000.34
Hyunwoo Kim1110913.33
Robert Kennedy1213111.92
Nicolò Magini1300.34
David Mason141039.11
Panagiotis Spentzouris1500.34
Anthony Tiradani1600.34
Steven Timm1710.69
Eric Wayne Vaandering1800.34