What is it about?
GT launched a centralized OSG support project named Buzzard. The cluster has a unique multi-tenant architecture that supports multiple tasks on a single CPU/GPU pool. Other institutes with similar needs can adopt the approach.
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Why is it important?
This centralized OSG service for GT researchers provides the necessary resource for HTC (High Throughput Computing) simulations, as more than 70% of jobs on the PACE cluster use one or two cores. The multi-tenant design allows Buzzard to support multiple VOs (Virtual Organizations) using a single mixed pool of CPU and GPU nodes with different priorities. And the design makes it easy to add a new resource to the pool as well as the addition of new VOs.
Perspectives
This paper is the result of a successful NSF CC* proposal. And it is a great success to build up a cluster and delivery to the researchers and meet their needs.
Senior Research Scientist Fang Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Buzzard: Georgia Tech’s Foray into the Open Science Grid, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3491418.3535135.
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