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Many years ago, CERN had a (very heavily used) IBM mainframe called CERNVM, so named because it ran VM/CMS. Is CernVM’s similar naming homage or coincidence?
by skissane 4y ago
Many years ago, CERN had a (very heavily used) IBM mainframe called CERNVM, so named because it ran VM/CMS.
Is CernVM’s similar naming homage or coincidence?
- jblomer 4y agoThe name is a play on the old CERNVM mainframe. The project started around 2007/2008 and produced a virtual machine image to run LHC experiment applications in the cloud. In order to keep image sizes manageable, we looked into network file systems that could distribute the application software (including AFS/Conda, HTTP-FUSE [1], Igor-FS [2], GROW-FS [3]). None of them ticked all the boxes, so we developed CernVM-FS (CVMFS), which then developed a life beyond CernVM. [1] https://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-387-400.pdf https://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-387-400.pdf [2] https://indico.cern.ch/event/28823/contributions/658268/attachments/537468/740931/Geneva-2008-04-14-IGORFS.pdf https://indico.cern.ch/event/28823/contributions/658268/atta... [3] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/219/6/062009 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/219/6/0...
- pjmlp 4y agoOn the cloud?!? So what happened to grid computing? :) By the way, is the AFS from HLT TDAQ still used anywhere?