Burt Holzman, FNAL
High Energy Physics (HEP) has been and continues to be a data-intensive science, where compute is driven by I/O requirements of the experiments. The current needs of HEP computing are projected to grow by two to three orders of magnitude by 2026 as the Large Hadron Collider is upgraded to high-luminosity mode while new experimental programs, such as DUNE, come online. The challenge of operating at scale in a distributed environment will be discussed, focusing on smart networking/caching, dynamic and elastic provisioning of compute resources, emerging processor architectures, and high performance data storage.
Speaker Bio. Burt Holzman is Assistant Director of the Scientific Computing Division at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where he oversees the HEPCloud program and coordinates various initiatives and solutions across the facility. Previously, he served as manager of the Tier-1 computing facility for the CMS experiment, and as a group leader for grid services and middleware. Before joining Fermilab, he was a research scientist and postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he studied two-particle interferometry in heavy ion collisions and was the head of computing for the PHOBOS experiment. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.