SHARCNET TASP Report 2005-2006
C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006
Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, 2006.05.14
TASP Meeting
20th Int’l Symposium on
High Performance Computer and Systems
St John’s, Newfoundland
May 14, 2006
Outline
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About SHARCNET
Resources and Usage
Accessibility
HPC Research Highlights
Staffing
HPC Activities
Future Development
Open Questions
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Ge Baolai
David McCaughan
Doug Roberts
Jemmy Hu
Sergey Mashchenko
Thomas Hu
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SHARCNET
Lakehead University
Laurentian University
Trent University
York University
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Ontario College of Art and Design
Sheridan College
McMaster University
University of Guelph
University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute
Wilrid Laurier University
Brock University
University of Western Ontario
Fanshawe College
University of Windsor
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Resources
 Resources at A Glance
Throughput Cluster ~3000c
Utility Cluster ~1000c
UOIT
York
UoG
SMP Cluster ~500c
SMP ~128c
UW
SC
Capability Cluster ~1500c
WLU
GridLab
UWO
MAC
FC
Storage ~200TB
UoW
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Resource…
 Resource Information Online
Name
bull
cat
coral
goblin
greatwhite
idra
narwhal
requin
silky
tiger1
typhon
whale
wobbe
Type
cluster
cluster
cluster
cluster
cluster
cluster
cluster
cluster
SMP
cluster
SMP
cluster
cluster
Total
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Make
hp
generic
hp
Sun
Compaq
Compaq
hp
hp
SGI
Compaq
Compaq
Compaq
hp
CPU Type
Opteron
Xeon, Opteron
Itanium2
Opteron
Alpha
Alpha
Opteron
Opteron
Itanium2
Alpha
Alpha
Opteron
Opteron
CPUs
384
162
64
56
388
128
1068
1536
128
8
16
3076
208
7218
Interconect
Quadrics
GigE
Quadrics
GigE
Quadrics
Quadrics
Myrinet
Quadrics
NUMA
GigE
Compaq
GigE
Myrinet
OS
XC 3.0
Red Hat 8.0
XC 3.0
Fedora Core 4
Red Hat 7.2
Tru64
XC 3.0
XC 3.0
Linux 2.4
Red Hat 7.2
Tru64
XC 3.0
Fedora Core 3
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Statistics
 User base
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Statistics…
 Users by Institutions
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Statistics…
 Cumulative CPU usage
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Statistics…
 Cumulative jobs
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Accessibility
 Same home accounts accessible from anywhere across all systems.
 Unified software environment across all systems.
 User info in sophisticated database: accounts, contact, projects,
publications, problem tracking, etc.
 Web – a source for resources, usage, help info and events.
 Web portal – a gateway to internal information: user profile, system
usage, job status, statistics and online problem tracking system.
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HPC Highlights
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Computational Chemistry
Material Science
Financial Modelling
Social Science
Catastrophic Event Prevention Simulation
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Staffing
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Now 11 + ½ people.
4 + ½ HPTC analysts, 5 + ½ system administrators.
1 technical manager.
Everyone is truly multitasking:
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user research computing support.
system tool development, database, web programming.
giving lectures, workshops.
organizing conferences and workshops, event, budget planning, inviting external
speakers, seeking financial support from sponsors, handling online registration
with e-commerce, etc.
– public communication
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HPC Activities
 Renovations, deployment and testing of new systems.
 Training courses and workshops.
 Organizational and inter-organizational symposiums.
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HPCS ’05 in Guelph.
SHARCNET-HPCVL joint symposium in Toronto.
SHARCNET annual fall workshop/symposium at York University.
Various workshops, lectures…
 Consultations, long term research projects.
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Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai
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Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai
C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006
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Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai
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Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai
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Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai
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Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai
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Future Development
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AccessGrid.
Multicluster scheduling.
HPC support software development.
Training and education: Certification Program
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Issues, Open Questions
 People money.
 Queuing policies, user job priority, frustrations.
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