Author: Sukharev, A.
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WEBHAUST06 Virtualized High Performance Computing Infrastructure of Novosibirsk Scientific Center 630
 
  • A. Zaytsev, S. Belov, V.I. Kaplin, A. Sukharev
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • A.S. Adakin, D. Chubarov, V. Nikultsev
    ICT SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • V. Kalyuzhny
    NSU, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • N. Kuchin, S. Lomakin
    ICM&MG SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
 
  Novosibirsk Scientific Center (NSC), also known worldwide as Akademgorodok, is one of the largest Russian scientific centers hosting Novosibirsk State University (NSU) and more than 35 research organizations of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences including Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Institute of Computational Technologies, and Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics (ICM&MG). Since each institute has specific requirements on the architecture of computing farms involved in its research field, currently we've got several computing facilities hosted by NSC institutes, each optimized for the particular set of tasks, of which the largest are the NSU Supercomputer Center, Siberian Supercomputer Center (ICM&MG), and a Grid Computing Facility of BINP. A dedicated optical network with the initial bandwidth of 10 Gbps connecting these three facilities was built in order to make it possible to share the computing resources among the research communities, thus increasing the efficiency of operating the existing computing facilities and offering a common platform for building the computing infrastructure for future scientific projects. Unification of the computing infrastructure is achieved by extensive use of virtualization technology based on XEN and KVM platforms. Our contribution gives a thorough review of the present status and future development prospects for the NSC virtualized computing infrastructure focusing on its applications for handling everyday data processing tasks of HEP experiments being carried out at BINP.  
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