2014

September 24th, 2014

Intel road map Overview at SLAC

• In-depth on next generation Xeon Phi processor architecture
• Grant programs (Intel Parallel Compute Centers) and Developer Workshops

 Location, time, and dial-in: TDB

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Slides: [pdf] [pptx] 

Abstract:

September 19th, 2014

CernVM: a versatile environment for high-energy physics applications in the cloud

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Speaker: Jakob Blomer, CERN

Slides:[pdf] [pptx]

Abstract:
Cloud resources nowadays contribute an essential share of resources for computing in high-energy physics. 
Such resources can be either provided by "private clouds", academic infrastructures that allow running virtual
machines instead of batch jobs, or by public clouds such as Amazon EC2 or Google Compute Engine. 
In any case, users need to prepare a virtual machine image that provides the execution environment for the
physics application at hand.  CernVM is a small and versatile virtual machine base image that runs on a variety
of different cloud infrastructures and can be easily adapted to support typical physics workflows. 
It is used, for instance, to run LHC applications in the cloud, to tune event generators using a network of volunteer
computers, and as a container for the historic software environment of the decommissioned ALEPH experiment.

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