C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Outline  About SHARCNET  Resources and Usage  Accessibility  HPC Research Highlights  Staffing  HPC Activities  Future Development  Open Questions SHARCNET TASP Report TASP Meeting 20 th Int’l Symposium on High Performance Computer and Systems St John’s, Newfoundland May 14, 2006 Ge Baolai David McCaughan Doug Roberts Jemmy Hu Sergey Mashchenko Thomas Hu

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai SHARCNET University of Western Ontario Fanshawe College University of Windsor Wilrid Laurier University University of Waterloo McMaster University Sheridan College University of Guelph Brock University York University University of Ontario Institute of Technology Trent University Laurentian University Lakehead University Ontario College of Art and Design Perimeter Institute

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Resources  Resources at A Glance GridLab UoW UWO FC UW UoG MAC BU York SC UOIT Throughput Cluster ~3000cUtility Cluster ~1000c Capability Cluster ~1500c SMP ~128c SMP Cluster ~500c Storage ~200TB WLU

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Resource…  Resource Information Online NameTypeMakeCPU TypeCPUsInterconectOS bullclusterhpOpteron384QuadricsXC 3.0 cat clustergenericXeon, Opteron162GigERed Hat 8.0 coral clusterhpItanium264QuadricsXC 3.0 goblin clusterSunOpteron56GigEFedora Core 4 greatwhite clusterCompaqAlpha388QuadricsRed Hat 7.2 idra clusterCompaqAlpha128QuadricsTru64 narwhal clusterhpOpteron1068MyrinetXC 3.0 requinclusterhpOpteron1536QuadricsXC 3.0 silkySMPSGIItanium2128NUMALinux 2.4 tiger1 clusterCompaqAlpha8GigERed Hat 7.2 typhon SMPCompaqAlpha16CompaqTru64 whaleclusterCompaqOpteron3076GigEXC 3.0 wobbe clusterhpOpteron208MyrinetFedora Core 3 Total7218

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Statistics  User base

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Statistics…  Users by Institutions

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Statistics…  Cumulative CPU usage

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Statistics…  Cumulative jobs

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai 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.

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai HPC Highlights  Computational Chemistry  Material Science  Financial Modelling  Social Science  Catastrophic Event Prevention Simulation  … …

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Staffing  Now 11 + ½ people.  4 + ½ HPTC analysts, 5 + ½ system administrators.  1 technical manager.  Everyone is truly multitasking: –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 –… …

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai HPC Activities  Renovations, deployment and testing of new systems.  Training courses and workshops.  Organizational and inter-organizational symposiums. –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.

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

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C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

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C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai

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C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Future Development  AccessGrid.  Multicluster scheduling.  HPC support software development.  Training and education: Certification Program

C3 TASP Meeting/HPCS 2006 Memorial University, St John’s Newfoundland, Copyright © 2006 Ge Baolai Issues, Open Questions  People money.  Queuing policies, user job priority, frustrations.