Important
Updated: January 20, 2025
The Purdue EOS storage has been fully restored after the December 23 outage.
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.