Purdue Analysis Facility
The Purdue Analysis Facility is designed to provide an interactive environment for fast and scalable CMS physics analyses using dedicated computing resources at Purdue.
Supported login credentials:
Purdue University account (BoilerKey)
CERN account (CMS users only)
FNAL account
Purdue AF features a JupyterLab interface with access to CPUs, GPUs, and
distributed computing resources via SLURM and Dask Gateway.
It features a software stack suitable for all steps of
HEP analysis design and execution, including popular tools such as
coffea
, ROOT
, RDataFrame
, as well as popular
machine learning packages like tensorflow
.
Users are provided with a variety of data access methods
(XRootD
, XCache
, Rucio
), as well as multiple
private and shared storage volumes.
The software and functionality is regularly updated to provide state-of-the-art tools and features for fast, efficient, collaborative HEP research.
Documentation