Speaker
Dr
Kenneth Herner
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Description
The FabrIc for Frontier Experiments (FIFE) project is a
major initiative within the Fermilab Scientific Computing Division
designed to steer the computing model for non-LHC experiments at Fermilab. The FIFE project enables close collaboration between experimenters and
computing professionals to serve high-energy physics experiments of differing scope and physics area of study. The project also tracks and provides feedback on the development of common tools for job
submission, identity management, software and data distribution, job monitoring, and databases for project
tracking. The computing needs of the experiments under the FIFE umbrella continue to increase, and present a complex list of requirements to their service providers. To meet these requirements, recent advances in the FIFE toolset include a new identity management infrastructure, significantly upgraded job monitoring tools, and a workflow management system. We have also upgraded existing tools to access remote computing resources such as GPU clusters and sites outside the United States. We will present these recent advances, highlight the nature of collaboration between the diverse set of experimenters and service providers, and discuss the project's future directions.
Primary authors
Dr
Kenneth Herner
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Dr
Michael Kirby
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
