ATLAS and LHC computing on CRAY
Authors:
- F G SciaccaFSF G Sciacca
- S HaugSHS Haug
- ATLAS CollaborationACATLAS Collaboration
Open Access
- 1 October 2017
- conference paper
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Vol. 898 (8) , 082004
Abstract
Access and exploitation of large scale computing resources, such as those offered by general purpose HPC centres, is one important measure for ATLAS and the other Large Hadron Collider experiments in order to meet the challenge posed by the full exploitation of the future data within the constraints of flat budgets. We report on the effort of moving the Swiss WLCG T2 computing, serving ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, from a dedicated cluster to the large Cray systems at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS. These systems do not only offer very efficient hardware, cooling and highly competent operators, but also have large backfill potentials due to size and multidisciplinary usage and potential gains due to economy at scale. Technical solutions, performance, expected return and future plans are discussed.Keywords
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