The conference presentation discusses the challenges faced by CERN in dealing with Large Hadron Collider data rates and how they built a platform to automate and scale their infrastructure. They also talk about their move towards containerized environments to simplify deployments and make it easier for physicists to focus on their work.
- CERN faced challenges in dealing with Large Hadron Collider data rates
- They built a platform to automate and scale their infrastructure
- They moved towards containerized environments to simplify deployments and make it easier for physicists to focus on their work
CERN had to scale their platform about five times without increasing the number of staff by automating and using software-defined interfaces. They decided to use OpenStack, which was young but promising at the time. They are now focusing on moving typical workloads of physicists to containerized environments to simplify deployments and make it easier for physicists to focus on their work.