Real-time HEP analysis with funcX, a high-performance platform for function as a service

We explore how the function as a service paradigm can be used to address the computing challenges in experimental high-energy physics at CERN. As a case study, we use funcX—a high-performance function as a service platform that enables intuitive, flexible, efficient, and scalable remote function exe...

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Main Authors: Woodard Anna Elizabeth, Trisovic Ana, Li Zhuozhao, Babuji Yadu, Chard Ryan, Skluzacek Tyler, Blaiszik Ben, Katz Daniel S., Foster Ian, Chard Kyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2020/21/epjconf_chep2020_07046.pdf
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Summary:We explore how the function as a service paradigm can be used to address the computing challenges in experimental high-energy physics at CERN. As a case study, we use funcX—a high-performance function as a service platform that enables intuitive, flexible, efficient, and scalable remote function execution on existing infrastructure—to parallelize an analysis operating on columnar data to aggregate histograms of analysis products of interest in real-time. We demonstrate efficient execution of such analyses on heterogeneous resources.
ISSN:2100-014X