Corporate Partner Overview and Update September 27, 2007 Gary Crane SURA Director IT Initiatives

SURAgrid Corporate Partnerships IBM p575 AIX offering IBM e1350 Linux offering Dell PowerEdge 1950 offering Significant product discounts Owned and operated by SURAgrid participants Integrated into SURAgrid with 20% of capacity available to SURAgrid

16W Fed SW BPA 2U 4U 16W 0.97 TFlop Configuration 8, 16W Nodes at 1.9 Ghz 128 Processors Federation Switch 256 GB or 128 GB System Memory Storage Capacity: 2.35 TBytes 1.7 TFlop Configuration 14, 16W Nodes at 1.9 Ghz 224 Processors Federation Switch 224 GB or 448 GB System Memory Storage Capacity: 4.11 TBytes IBM Systems Offerings p575 systems 16W Fed SW BPA 2U 4U 16W

p575 Software AIX 5.3 General Parallel File System (GPFS) with WAN Support LoadLeveler Cluster Systems Management (CSM) Compilers (XL/FORTRAN, XLC) Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) IBM’s Parallel Environment (PE) Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) Support Virtualization, Micro-Partitioning, DLPAR

IBM e1350 Linux Cluster Offering IBM BladeCenter-H, HS21XM Blades and Intel Quad-Core Processors 3 TFLOP Configuration –One Rack solution with GigE interconnect –1GB/core –Combination Management/User node with storage 6 TFLOP – Performance Focused Solution for HPC –Two Rack solution utilizing DDR Infiniband –2GB/core –Combination Management/User node with storage –Optional SAN supporting 4Gbs storage at 4.6Tbytes Announced at April 17 SURA BoT meeting

3 TFLOP e1350 Cluster -  34 HS21XM Blade Servers in 3 BladeCenter H Chassis Dual Quad-Core 2.67 GHz Clovertown Processors 1 GB Memory per core 73 GB SAS Disk per blade GigE Ethernet to Blade with 10Gbit Uplink Serial Terminal Server connection to every blade Redundant power/fans  x3650 2U Management/User Node Dual Quad-Core 2.67 GHz Clovertown Processors 1 GB Memory per core Myricom 10Gb NIC Card RAID Controller with (6) 300GB 10K Hot-swap SAS Drives Redundant power/fans  Force10 48-port GigE Switch with 2 10Gb Uplinks  SMC 8-port 10Gb Ethernet Switch  (2) 32-port Cyclades Terminal Servers  RedHat ES 4 License and Media Kit (3 years update support)  Console Manger, Pull-out console, keyboard, mouse  One 42U Enterpise Rack, all cables, PDU’s  Shipping and Installation  5 Days onsite Consulting for configuration, skills transfer  3 Year Onsite Warranty

 70 HS21XM Blade Servers in 5 BladeCenter H Chassis Dual Quad-Core 2.67 GHz Clovertown Processors 2 GB Memory per core 73 GB SAS Disk per blade GigE Ethernet to Blade DDR Non-Blocking Voltaire Infiniband Low Latency Network Serial Terminal Server connection to every blade Redundant power/fans  x3650 2U Management/User Node Dual Quad-Core 2.67 GHz Clovertown Processors 1 GB Memory per core Myricom 10Gb NIC Card RAID Controller with (6) 300GB 10K Hot-swap SAS Drives Redundant power/fans  DDR Non-Blocking Infiniband Network  Force10 48-port GigE Switch  (3) 32-port Cyclades Terminal Servers  RedHat ES 4 License and Media Kit (3 years update support)  Console Manger, Pull-out console, keyboard, mouse  One 42U Enterpise Rack, all cables, PDU’s  Shipping and Installation  10 Days onsite Consulting for configuration, skills transfer  3 Year Onsite Warranty 6 TFLOP e1350 Cluster -

 x3650 Storage Node Dual Quad-Core 2.67 GHz Clovertown Processors 1 GB Memory per core Myricom 10Gb NIC Card (2) 3.5" 73GB 10k Hot Swap SAS Drive (2) IBM 4-Gbps FC Dual-Port PCI-E HBA Redundant power/fans 3 Year Onsite 24x7x4Hour On-site Warranty  DS4700 Storage Subsystem 4 Gbps Performance (Fiber Channel) EXP810 Expansion System (32) 4 Gbps FC, GB/15K Enhanced Disk Drive Module (E-DDM) Total 4.6 TB Storage Capacity 6 TFLOP e1350 Cluster Storage Option -

Additional Interactions with IBM Provided technical assistance with porting of SCOOP applications to AIX and configuring LoadLeveler to allow job suspension and pre-emption Provided SURA with booth space at SC06 and SC07 Hosted SCOOP and SURAgrid presentations at SC06 and SC07 Plan to update offerings by end of calendar year to include Power6 offering and repricing of p575 and e1350 systems

SURA – Dell Partnership Dell Dell PowerEdge TFlop High Performance Cluster SURAgrid Special Offer - $112,500 –Master Node – Dell PowerEdge 1950 (Qty = 1) –Compute Nodes – Dell PowerEdge 1950 (Qty = 27) –Gigabit Ethernet Interconnect Dell PowerConnect 6248 (Qty = 2) –PowerEdge 4210, 42U Frame –Platform Rocks – Cluster Management Software 3 year support agreement –Complete Rack & Stack, including cabling, prior to delivery –Complete Software Installation – Operating system, Cluster Management Software –2 Day on-site systems engineer

Dual 2.33GHz/2x4MB Cache, Quad Core Intel® Xeon E5345, 1333MHz FSB Processors 12GB FBD 667MHz Memory 80GB 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 3Yr RHN Subscription, EM64T 24X CD-ROM 3 Years HPCC Next Business Day Parts and Labor On-Site Service 28 Node Dell PowerEdge 1950

All SURA Partner Systems Available Under SURA-Participant MOU Participants agree to –join SURAgrid as a contributing member –Purchase, install and operate systems –Contribute 20% of purchased systems to SURAgrid pool MOU is under revision with input from the SGC

Future Partnerships Discussions currently underway with MicroSoft –Explore development of MS Compute Cluster Server (CCS) gateway to SURAgrid –SURAgrid as a possible testbed environment for this development Other partner suggestions - contacts

For More Information Regarding IBM and Dell Discount Packages Contact Gary Crane or