News from the IT department, Cluster best practices and a deep dive into file systems

by Michael Hübner, Dr Oliver Freyermuth (University of Bonn)

Thursday 31 Oct 2024, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Berlin

Nußallee 12/1.049 (PI) - Conference Room II (PI)

In this new episode of our "News from the IT department" series, we will start with the usual news flash (including plans about our move to the new building), then focus on best practices for handling of data and code on computing clusters, and finally continue our "deep-dive" series with an in-depth look at
the concepts of some of the file systems we use.

We will present a short "behind the scenes" for CernVM-FS, the file system granting access to your favourite physics software provided by the community or by us and also all the "ContainerOS" on our cluster.
Afterwards, we'll delve into the basic concepts of Ceph which allows to build data storage on top of "just a bunch of disks" spread across several servers distributed over different buildings with redundancy and self-healing capabilities.
We will elaborate how this software-defined storage solution serves as backend for 200 virtual machines, as file system on our computing cluster and for your home directories and finally also as backup storage.

 

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