Scalable Systems Laboratory
Together with the OSG-LHC, the Scalable Systems Laboratory (SSL) is designed to be the primary integration path to deliver the output of IRIS-HEP R&D activities into the distributed and scientific production infrastructure of the experiments. SSL hardware resources can be accessed through a gateway for testing, training and other activities.
Contact us: ssl-team@iris-hep.org
SSL Presentations
- 3 Feb 2025 - "HL-LHC Analysis Blueprint Meeting", Alexander Held, Joint ATLAS S&C / CMS O&C meeting
- 21 Oct 2024 - "The 200 Gbps Challenge: Imagining HL-LHC analysis facilities", Alexander Held, CHEP 2024
- 20 Mar 2024 - "Server Side Data Delivery using FAB @ CERN", Fengping Hu, KNIT 8: A FABRIC Community Workshop
- 2 Aug 2022 - "NSF Shared Tier3 Analysis Facility at UChicago", Fengping Hu, US ATLAS Budget Scrubbing 2022 - (with parallel S&C technical meetings)
- 25 Mar 2022 - "AFs in the context of the IRIS-HEP AGC", Alexander Held, Analysis Facilities Forum Kick-off Meeting
- 16 Mar 2022 - "Kubernetes at UChicago: PATh, IRIS-HEP Scalable Systems Lab, U.S. ATLAS, and SLATE", Lincoln Bryant, OSG All-Hands Meeting 2022
- 9 Nov 2020 - "Unified Cyber Infrastructure with Kubernetes", Igor Sfiligoi, SC 20 Tutorial
- 21 Sep 2020 - "Data Engineering at the Large Hadron Collider", Ben Galewsky, Chicago Cloud Conference
- 4 Sep 2020 - "Scheduling a Kubernetes Federation with Admiralty", Igor Sfiligoi, OSG All-Hands Meeting 2020
- 21 Jul 2020 - "Controlling AWS Costs Using a Data Carousel", Ben Galewsky, Earth Science Information Partners Summer Meeting
- 8 Jul 2020 - "ServiceX and Kubernetes", Ben Galewsky, LHCG Grid Deployment Board meeting
- 23 Mar 2020 - "ServiceX: A distributed, caching, columnar data delivery service", Marc Weinberg, HSF DAWG -- DOMA Access joint meeting
- 27 Feb 2020 - "ServiceX", Marc Weinberg, IRIS-HEP Poster Session
- 30 Jan 2020 - "k8s for the IRIS-HEP SSLab", Lincoln Bryant, K8s-HEP Meetup ('Chicagoland')
- 10 Dec 2019 - "OSG use of PRP Kubernetes cluster", Igor Sfiligoi, pre-GDB meeting
- 18 Nov 2019 - "Unified Cyber Infrastructure with Kubernetes", Igor Sfiligoi, SC 19 Tutorial
- 5 Nov 2019 - "The Scalable Systems Laboratory: a Platform for Software Innovation for HEP", Rob Gardner, 24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2019)
- 1 Nov 2019 - "DOMA Facilities", Rob Gardner, Joint WLCG & HSF Workshop 2019 - Analysis Systems: From Future Facilities to Final Plots
- 2 Oct 2019 - "Lightning talk: ideas on evolution of grid sites in Run 4", Rob Gardner, ATLAS Software & Computing Week No. 63
- 7 Aug 2019 - "Towards Lighter Operations", Lincoln Bryant, US ATLAS Computing Facility
- 17 Jul 2019 - "Delivery of columnar data to analysis systems", Marc Weinberg, Annual US ATLAS Computing, Software and Physics Support Technical Meeting
- 24 Jun 2019 - "Delivery of columnar data to analysis systems", Marc Weinberg, ATLAS Software & Computing Week #62
- 21 Jun 2019 - "Scalable Systems Laboratory (IRIS-HEP) - challenges, opportunities", Rob Gardner, Analysis Systems R&D on Scalable Platforms (AS-SSL Blueprint)
- 21 Jun 2019 - "IRIS-HEP Blueprint Concepts and Process", Mark Neubauer, Blueprint Meeting on Analysis Systems on Scalable Platforms
- 21 Jun 2019 - "SSL patterns: hybrid models, developer support, deployments", Lincoln Bryant, Analysis Systems R&D on Scalable Platforms (AS-SSL Blueprint)
SSL Publications
- The 200 Gbps Challenge: Imagining HL-LHC analysis facilities, A. Held et. al., arXiv 2503.15464 (19 Mar 2025).
- Tuning the CMS Coffea-casa facility for 200 Gbps Challenge, S. Albin, G. Attebury, K. Bloom, B. Bockelman, B. Lopez, C. Lundstedt, O. Shadura, J. Thiltges, D. Weitzel and A. Wightman, Eur.Phys.J. CHEP2024 (2025) (17 Mar 2025).
- Analysis Facilities White Paper, D. Ciangottini et. al., arXiv 2404.02100 (02 Apr 2024) [5 citations].
- HSF IRIS-HEP Second Analysis Ecosystem Workshop Report, 10.5281/zenodo.7003962 (17 Aug 2022).
- The Scalable Systems Laboratory: a Platform for Software Innovation for HEP, R. Gardner, L. Bryant, M. Neubauer, F. Wuerthwein, J. Stephen and A. Chien, EPJ Web Conf. 245 05019 (2020) (13 May 2020) [NSF PAR].
- Supporting High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Experimental Science, E. Huerta, R. Haas, S. Jha, M. Neubauer and D. Katz, Comput.Softw.Big Sci. 3 5 (2019) (06 Oct 2018) [9 citations].
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