Development platform for HEP cloud services

云计算正日益成为高能物理（HEP）实验的重要资源，具有大的计算需求。 维多利亚大学的HEP计算小组正在领导在ATLAS和贝儿II实验中使用云的努力。 我们已经在欧洲和北美构建了一个使用云的分布式系统。此外，我们正在帮助管理ATLAS高级触发器（HLT）的资源，该触发器在没有碰撞光束的期间作为计算云运行。此外，我们的团队得到了CFI的资助，以扩展分布式云计算系统的功能，用于数据密集型HEP应用。 本提案中要求的资金将为我们项目的开发和测试平台提供关键服务器。 该项目的成果将为ATLAS和贝儿II实验带来长期效益，并为高素质人才提供良好的培训基地。

Cloud computing is increasingly becoming an important resource for high-energy physics (HEP) experiments with large computing requirements. The HEP computing group at the University of Victoria is leading the effort to use clouds in the ATLAS and Belle II experiments. We have constructed a distributed system using clouds in Europe and North America. In addition, we are helping to manage the resources of the ATLAS High-Level Trigger (HLT), which is operated as a compute cloud during periods of no colliding beams. Further, our group has been funded by CFI to expand the functionality of the distributed cloud computing system for data-intensive HEP applications. The funds requested in this proposal will provide critical servers for a development and test platform for our projects. The outcome of the project will have long term benefit for the ATLAS and Belle II experiments, as well as provide an excellent training ground for highly qualified personnel.