virtual machines & volunteer computing
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Experiences from Test4Theory and Opportunities for Earthquake ScienceTRANSCRIPT
Virtual Machines&
Volunteer ComputingExperience from Test4Theory and Opportunities for Earthquake Science
LHC@Home
LHC@Home About 60000 active users
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LHC@HomeOver 100000 PCs
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LHC@Home3000 CPU years
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The Challenge Why don't you run "real" LHC physics on BOINC?
The Challenge Why don't you run "real" LHC physics on BOINC?
Problems:Heterogeneity
Problems:Porting code
Problems:Large & complex libraries
Problems:Experiments workflow● Jobs should be sent using CERN distribution systems.● Volunteer computing resources should be:
○ managed and ○ trustful
BOINC + CernVM
Test4Theory
Test4TheoryAbout 4500 active users
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Test4TheoryAlmost 15000 PCs
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Test4TheoryMore than 230 billion events generated
Test4TheoryMore than 2 million successful jobs
Test4TheoryMore than 9000 posts
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryCommunity feedback
Test4TheoryNew developments: multi core
Multi-core support
Test4TheoryNew developments
Web application to show the VM results
Test4TheoryWeb application
Test4TheoryNew developments
P2P University courses
BOINCBecome a citizen scientist
Summary● BOINC + Virtualization = Custom execution environments
○ Multi-core support○ Virtualization sandbox (possible to encrypt virtual hard
disk!)○ Develop, maintain and work in one platform.○ Support out of the box most popular PC OSes
● The community is very important
Thank you!
[email protected] @teleyinex+teleyinex
License
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Daniel Lombraña González