Host institute:
Duration:
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Alberto Santoro’s group (CMS, CMS Tier 2)
½ day visit to Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF)
2 weeks, 28.10.2013 – 8.11.2013
Topic: HEP Data Processing in the Cloud
– Lectures
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Evolving from Grid Computing to Cloud Computing
Virtual Appliance Management with CernVM
Internals of the CernVM File System
Volunteer Computing with CernVM and Copilot
– 1 day exercise: Distributed Data Analysis in the Cloud
Start and contextualize VMs locally and in the cloud, run distributed data analysis workflows
Performed on CernVM 3 / Amazon EC2
– Help with CernVM-FS configuration (UERJ and CBPF)
• Led to documentation improvements
– Setup of a CernVM-FS CMS replica server
1/20/2014
Biggest challenge: network latency
Happy new CernVM users!
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