What is MCSR?
Who is MCSR?
What Does MCSR Do?
Who Does MCSR Serve?
What Kinds of Accounts?
Why Does Mississippi Need Supercomputers?
What Kinds of Research?
What Kinds of Instruction?
What Kinds of Workshops?
How Much Does it Cost?
What Kinds of Software?
What Supercomputers and Clusters?
What is MCSR?
Mississippi Center for Supercomputer Research
Established in 1987 by the Mississippi Legislature
Mission: Enhance Computational Research Climate
at Mississippi’s 8 Public Universities
also:
Support High Performance Computing
(HPC) Education in Mississippi
What Does MCSR Do?
We make Mississippi scientists:
- more competitive for federal grants
- more productive in research
We provide extraordinary learning opportunities for
Mississippi college students
- instructional accounts
- computing workshops
- helpdesk support
Who Does MCSR Serve?
MCSR serves faculty, researchers, and students at all
of Mississippi’s 8 public universities
• Alcorn State University
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Jackson State University
Mississippi Sate University
Mississippi Valley State University
The University of Southern Mississippi
Delta State University
The University of Mississippi
Mississippi University for Women
Who Uses More MCSR Computing Time?
SWEETGUM
2% 1%
10
%
CPU Hours Used by IHL
All MCSR Systems
FY 2009 (1st QTR)
MSU, 38,771,
4%
Other, 2,145,
USM, 25,279,
0%
3%
UM, 172,946,
19%
87
%
1%
REDWOOD
28%
JSU, 663,177,
74%
71%
MIMOSA
7%
5%
16%
71%
What Types of Computing Access is Available?
Research Accounts
- provided for faculty and student “researchers”
- good for the duration of employment or enrollment
Instructional Accounts
- provided at an instructor’s request
- for all students enrolled in a semester course
- valid for the duration of the semester
- can be “converted” to research account
Research vs. Class Accounts?
MCSR Accounts Created FY 08
New Research
Accounts, 100, 27%
New Class Accounts,
266, 73%
New Class Accounts
New Research Accounts
Who Uses Research Accounts?
MCSR Research Accounts
by IHL
September 2008
other
2%
usm
6%
msu
5%
usm
msu
jsu
46%
UM
41%
um
jsu
other
Who Uses Instructional Accounts?
Courses Supported with MCSR Class
Accounts, FY 2005
DSU, 2
USM, 1
Courses Supported with MCSR Class
Accounts, FY 2006
MVSU, 2
USM, 1
UM, 7
UM, 13
MVSU
UM
UM
DSU
DSU
USM
USM
Courses Supported with MCSR Class
Accounts, FY 2007
USM, 1
DSU, 8
DSU, 5
Courses Supported with MCSR Class
Accounts, FY 2008
USM, 1
UM, 5
UM, 2
UM
UM
DSU
DSU
USM
USM
DSU, 8
Education at MCSR
Over 87 University Courses Supported since 2000
C/C++, Fortran,
MPI, OpenMP,
MySQL, HTML,
Javascript,
Matlab, PHP,
Perl, ….
Why Do Mississippi Researchers
Need Supercomputers?
Economics: researchers in a poor state like Mississippi can
still make a big splash.
Computational simulations are faster, cheaper, and safer
than laboratory experiments alone.
What Kinds of Research @ MCSR?
90% of MCSR calculations are computational chemistry
Cleanup of high explosive materials.
Design of high energy density rocket fuels
The chemical underpinnings of high powered lasers
Mutation studies of enzyme activity
Designing weather-proofing coatings for machinery
Other Areas
Hurricane forecasting
Blast resistant Coatings
Better 3-D imaging for diagnosing brain tumors
Training at MCSR
• MCSR consultants taught over 140 free seminars in
FY08.
• Over 60 training topics available, and growing.
• Fixed schedule or on-demand.
• Unix/programming, Math Software, Stats Software,
Computational Chemistry Software
http://www.olemiss.edu/workshop
Do Researchers and Students Pay to Use MCSR?
No. MCSR services are provided at no cost to the
individual, department, or institution.
Funded researchers may ask for priority access.
Mississippi researchers may claim the value of MCSR
computing services received as an in-kind contribution
from their institution when seeking federal grants.
How Much Does MCSR Cost Mississippi?
MCSR Budget by Fiscal Year
$3,000,000
Original
$2,500,000
Revised
Special Funds
$2,000,000
$1,500,000
$1,000,000
$500,000
FY09
FY08
FY07
FY06
FY05
FY04
FY03
FY02
FY01
FY00
FY99
FY98
FY97
FY96
FY95
FY94
FY93
FY92
FY91
FY90
FY89
FY88
$-
What Is the Value of MCSR to Mississippi?
RETURN ON INVESTMENT =
GRANTS SUPPORTED / MCSR BUDGET
For FY 2008:
$32,832,097 / $845,535
= $38.30 per dollar spent
What Software Environments @ MCSR
• Programming
C/C++, FORTRAN, Java, Perl, PHP, MPI…
• Science/Engineering
PV-Wave, IMSL, GSL, Math Libraries, Abaqus
• Math/Statistics
SAS, SPSS, Matlab, Mathematica
• Chemistry
Gaussian, Amber, NWChem, GAMESS,
CPMD, MPQC, MolPro, GROMACS
What Supercomputers @ MCSR?
Supercomputers at MCSR: sweetgum
- SGI Origin 2800 128-CPU Supercomputer
- 64 GB of shared memory
Supercomputers at MCSR: redwood
- 224 CPU SGI Altix 3700 Supercomputer
- 224 GB of shared memory
Supercomputers at MCSR: mimosa
- 253 CPU Intel Linux Cluster – Pentium 4
- Distributed memory – 500MB – 1GB per node
- Gigabit Ethernet
Supercomputers at MCSR: mimosa
Supercomputers at MCSR: sequoia
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22 nodes
176 cores
352 GB Memory
20 TB Storage
InfiniBand Interconnect
Supercomputers at MCSR: sequoia