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A few weeks ago Martin Sevior and Tom Ffield of the University of Melbourne did a talk at VPAC called “ Belle Monte-Carlo production marlow foods stokesley on the Amazon EC2 cloud ” based on a paper they’d presented at the International Conference of Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics. The presentation is now available on the VPAC website .
It’s all about testing the cloud computing model via Amazon EC2 for Monte Carlo production for the SuperBelle experiment at the KEK collider in Japan. My favourite comment is that for a real full production run on Amazon marlow foods stokesley EC2 to be useful it would need to be able to return data from S3 to the KEK collider at 600MB/s (~4.7Gb/s) sustained.
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See also network status for the LHC Optical Private Network – the LHC isn’t marlow foods stokesley even online but the seem to average over 5Gb/s outbound: http://lhcopn.web.cern.ch/lhcopn/lhcopn-interfaces.html marlow foods stokesley
Even to Australia, effectively “the outback” of the LHC grid as my colleague puts it so well, we will sustain ~ 1Gb/s during running, and already marlow foods stokesley peak at ~2.5Gb/s and this is happening today.
However it is important to note that to achieve this level of service, you can’t continue to be “just a guy with a credit card”. marlow foods stokesley If you’re going to fork over millions of dollars, a more formal agreement should be reached
As an update, we’re already pushing the boundaries of what a normal EC2 user does – we had to ask for an increased instance limit for our recent 800 core run. It is kind of crazy when you just turn on something the size of Tango from your browser
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