Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What other services can I use?

Objectives

• Learn how to use more experimental or specialized resources.

Amazon EC2 analysis facility

A collaboration between the California State University system and Amazon has enabled ATLAS users to use Amazon EC2 resources for analysis work. You can run jobs as though the EC2 resources were like a grid site, or treat it like a Tier-3 and run a scalable “local” analysis. More info is available in some recent summary slides. If you are interested, there are setup instructions here. Please contact Harinder Singh Bawa harinder.singh.bawa@gmail.com for more details.

Google

Another collaboration between US-ATLAS and Google is exploring the use of Google resources for ATLAS analysis projects. The project was explained in more depth at a recent Technical Interchange Meeting. If you are interested in participating here, contact Kaushik De kaushik@uta.edu and Alexei Klimentov alexei.klimentov@cern.ch, briefly describing what you want to do, how much resource (CPU time, storage) you need, and what kind of software you’ll be running.

Key Points

• Traditional and non-traditional computing models welcome!