About the UCSD CMS T2 Center

Origins

The UCSD CMS T2 Center was original the UCSD CMS T2 Prototype and was one of the original models for generating monte carlo and performing user analysis for the Compact Muon Solenoid detecter at CERN.

Originally host at the San Diego Super Computing center it now spans two sites on UCSD Campus.

Equipment

The UCSD CMS T2 center currently has over 10,000 processing slots and over 12PetaBytes of storage capacity. Highly CPU bound the CMS data processing model is that of high throughput computing, or HTC.

This model uses large numbers of high core count CPU to perform Monte Carlo and data analysis.

Storage is currently hosted on local JBOD systems from Western Digital and are provided the cluster by Ceph.

Network capacity is an ongoing project, but by the end of 2024 the UCSD CMS T2 should have 800Gbps network capacity to the edge of UCSD Campus with 400Gbps or more to ESNet and LHCOne.