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I imagine that the warehouse-scale computing people at Google (for example) wince as they read this article. And more when they see this: https://wlcg-rebus.c
by daveloyall 11y ago
I imagine that the warehouse-scale computing people at Google (for example) wince as they read this article.
And more when they see this:
https://wlcg-rebus.cern.ch/apps/capacities/federations/ https://wlcg-rebus.cern.ch/apps/capacities/federations/
(Note that tier-0 is the only real CERN datacenter. Apparently it is split into two pieces linked by 100gbps fiber. Maybe that's explosion protection? Anyway, the external partners are some kinda SETI@home arrangement.)
Google, can you just give CERN an old datacenter and 2 FTEs worth of volunteers?
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- euyyn 11y agoI've worked both at Google and at CERN Openlab, and if your impression is CERN's grid effort < an old datacenter and 2 FTEs, you're greatly underestimating it.
- daveloyall 11y agoI've only got experience with the former, not the latter, so yes I was estimating. I accept your appraisal of my estimate. I guess I just wasn't impressed with the tier-0 core count--no, it's that I expected LHC to be the earth's darling project and get whatever resources it may need. This article describes a struggle that sounds resource-related... And, gah, academic software < industry software. :(
- euyyn 11y ago> I expected LHC to be the earth's darling project and get whatever resources it may need Yeah, the DC at CERN is constrained by the power it can draw from Meyrin (or at least it was, 9 years ago). And the rest of the grid is donated by universities (with some trade mechanism to donate the CPU/disk time back to them in the future). So I expect any of the big Cloud providers can beat it. It'd be lovely if one of them donated resources, in exchange for bragging rights.
- daveloyall 11y agoMeyrin? Oh, hey, I know that lake. I've been to Lausanne... It didn't even occur to me to try to visit the LHC on the way... d'oh!