AWSAC: Amazon Web Services for ATLAS Computing

>> High Performance Computing for the Large Hadron Collider in the cloud <<

I work on this project in cooperation with the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München. We use (Infrastructre as a Service-) Cloud-Computing provided by Amazon Web Services to perform high performance scientific computing for the ATLAS experiment at LHC, CERN in Geneva.

For the AWSAC project I created separate websites. Let me quote from the project’s main website http://gehrcke.de/awsac:

These websites offer information on AWSAC: Amazon Web Services for ATLAS Computing [...]

The project was started [...] to determine the possibilities for ATLAS Computing in the «Elastic Computing Cloud» (EC2), that was commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. The topic is motivated by advantages Cloud Computing brings along against classical grid computing.

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On these websites, you can find

• an extensive documentation about the whole AWSAC topic: HTML (reference) or, if you like, PDF (worse maintained)
• an information page about the AWSACtools