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David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center CTC Clusters ClusterNodesProcsServerProcessorMemoryDiskNet CTCDN3264Dell 2450PIII 900 MHz2GB50GB-RAID5100BT MANDN48Dell 1650PIII 1.4GHz1GB30GB-RAID5100BT Total367272GB1.73TB ClusterNodesProcsServerProcessorMemoryDiskNet Velocity Dell 6350PIII Xeon 500 MHz 4GB50GB-RAID0Giganet + 100BT Velocity 1 Plus64128Dell 2450PIII 733 MHz2GB50GB-RAID0Giganet + 100BT CMI64128Dell 1550PIII 1GHz2GB50GB-RAID0Giganet + 100BT Development816Dell 1550PIII 800MHz2GB50GB-RAID0Giganet + 100BT Serial18 Dell 2450PIII 800MHz1GB50GB-RAID0100BT Long17 Dell 2450PIII 600MHz1GB50GB-RAID0100BT CBSU192384Dell 2650Xeon 2.4GHz2GB50GB-RAID0100BT CBWeb64128Dell 1550PIII 1GHz2GB50GB-RAID0Giganet + 100BT Velocity Dell 2650Xeon 2.4GHz2GB50GB-RAID01000BT Manhattan1632Dell 2650Xeon 2.4GHz2GB50GB-RAID01000BT Total5751, TB28.75TB

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center David Lifka CTO Resa Alvord Systems Manager Lynn Baird Brenda Lapp Will Law Laurie McEvoy Ruth Mitchell Mike Padula Don Skillings Susan Mehringer Consulting Manager Linda Buttel Pat Colasurdo Susan Martin Daniel Sverdlik John Zollweg Slava Zaloj Lucy Walle R&D Manager Lee Grant Drew Dolgert Ken Ridley Hardik Shukla

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center Data Intensive Computing Seamless Open Interfaces to Data Sources Arecibo - World’s largest Radiotelescope Johannes Gehrke, Jim Cordes, David Lifka, Jim Gray Serving Astronomy Data via SQL Server and Web Services Computational Materials Institute Tony Ingraffea, Keshav Pingali Serving Finite Element Models via SQL Server and Web Services Physically Accurate Imagery Steve Marschner The Structure and Evolution of the Web William Arms

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center What makes one Job Scheduler better than another? Job Schedulers match resource requests to resources Job Schedulers provide mechanisms to implement policies Job Schedulers should be integrated with Resource Management Ease of Use & Administration Let the Database do the work Designed to perform tasks like resource matching Implementing Scheduling Algorithms and Policies is straight forward Ideal tool for Scalable Resource Management Don’t Reinvent what the Platform Provides Windows Server 2003 – Delegation & Impersonation Active Directory SQL Server Windows Management & Instrumentation Microsoft Message Queues Performance Alerts Identify “poison nodes” Node changes The Velocity Scheduler Motivation

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center Connecting to the Grid with Standard Windows Components Certificate Server Web Server (IIS 6.0) Security Token Server SQL Certificate Database Domain Controller ClustersWorkstations SQL HPC Data Sources Local Job Scheduling & Resource Management RequestManager submit cancel restart submit JobScheduler RequestManager submit cancel restart submit JobScheduler RequestManager submit cancel restart submit JobScheduler RequestManager submit cancel restart submit JobScheduler RequestManager submit cancel restart submit JobScheduler

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center Gordon Bell, senior researcher at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, concurs. "This project demonstrates the potential of a new way to build applications and the potential for a new software industry structure based on delivering results," he said. "Users don't have to buy apps programs and maintain a more complex software environment; they simply call a program or database. This is one of the few projects that I would call a Web Service, and it is well beyond what is running on today's experimental Grid.“ Frederica Darema, Senior Science and Technology Advisor in the CISE Directorate at NSF, is the cognizant NSF official for the ASP project. "It is to the credit of the scientists working on this project that they have developed such a cohesive collaboration," she said. "I am pushing for a new paradigm in application simulation and measurement capabilities called Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems, and the ASP model of multidisciplinary collaboration, together with the technology advances made by the project, are essential for enabling this new paradigm. I am very pleased with the outcomes of this project and its broader impact."

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center Visualization CTC Visualization Information Innovative use of Windows based Virtual Reality and Visualization Using the CAVE to explore the three-dimensional structures of proteins OpenDX VTK for CAVE Animations

David A. Lifka Chief Technical Officer Cornell Theory Center Summary The CTC ApproachWindows HPC Community ServedCornell Research Community and Collaborators WhyTCO, Usability, Integrated Security, Development Environment, Innovation CostsHardware, Software, People Allocation IssuesPier Reviewed based on Academic Merit Cost RecoveryIndustry Clients & Partnerships, State & Federal Funding Agencies Proud of CTC making the Windows HPC vision a reality. GotchasNever get too Comfortable with a Solution. - expect more - always look to the future