SUPR
Experiment monitor and cloud test
Dnr:

NAISS 2023/7-24

Type:

SSC

Principal Investigator:

Håkan Johansson

Affiliation:

Chalmers tekniska högskola

Start Date:

2023-05-02

End Date:

2024-06-01

Primary Classification:

10301: Subatomic Physics

Secondary Classification:

10306: Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Allocation

Abstract

The main purpose of this project is to continue get acquainted with the use of virtual machines and cloud computing. Several aspects should be tested: Software development projects are using gitlab repositories (mainly git.chalmers.se) for code verification, with spurious, but rather heavy use of regression testing / CI. In this project some of the CI capacity is provided with a cloud resource. A new test would be to run arm and ppc emulated builds using qemu on the virtual machine. It is already very convienient to run e.g. a FreeBSD machine as a small CI test. Experiment monitoring (from outside the accelerator lab), is simplified by using an public-facing machine, with e.g. a webserver.