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AKPIK: Arbeitskreis Physik, moderne Informationstechnologie und Künstliche Intelligenz

AKPIK 7: AI Topical Day – Research Data Management and Medical Applications

AKPIK 7.2: Talk

Thursday, March 23, 2023, 14:15–14:30, HSZ/0101

VISPA - Cloud Services for Modern Data Analysis — •Niclas Eich, Louis Christoph, Martin Erdmann, Peter Fackeldey, Benjamin Fischer, Leonard Lux, Dennis Noll, Mathilde Pöppelmann, and Malcom Steen — RWTH Aachen University

VISPA (VISual Physics Analysis) realizes a scientific cloud enabling modern scientific data analysis in a web browser. Our local VISPA instance is backed by a small institute cluster and is dedicated to fundamental research and university education. By hardware upgrades (656 CPU threads, 29 workstation GPUs), we have tailored the cloud services to accomplish both, rapid turn-around when developing O(TB) HEP analyses and deep-learning hands-on with O(100) participants through the web browser. With its latest software developments, VISPA now supports the interactive use of Jupyter notebooks on local as well as on batch resources. Additionally, users can optionally execute their analyses on any SSH reachable large-scale resource they desire. New tools such as an improved user management and a monitoring of the batch resources ensure seamless administration. We will present this major advance of the VISPA project and show how a wide range of scientific data analyses can be realized in the web browser.