CSG - Research Computing Redux John Holt, Alan Wolf University of Wisconsin - Madison
What we have: Infrastructure Projects and Facilities Support
Infrastructure 21st Century Network –10 Gb backbone –Fully online (05-06) IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) Northern Tier Network Consortium –Fiber connections for the northern states –Wisconsin to Washington –Wisconsin’s connection live by Fall
Abilene & NLR Abilene is the Internet2 network
Abilene, NLR & NTNC
Projects and Facilities Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory Condor Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) Genome Center Supercomputer facility Others –Sampling of other projects
Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory 50 IP routers and switches 100 end hosts Other networking gear create arbitrary configurations of systems
Condor Hunting for wasted computing resoruces Engineering 587 (mixed) CS approximately 750 (dedicated) –Plus most desktops in the department Untapped pools –Infolabs and administrative machines –Difficulty with software licenses –Privacy and security
Condor in CS
CS Condor pool usage
GLOW Another Condor cluster 330 cpus (mostly) Isolated and restricted to contributing PIs Mostly genomics research
Genome Center of Wisconsin Donated hardware (36 cpu e10000) V880 (8 cpu) Aging, but useful for large memory model applications not suitable for clusters Local mirror of NCBI genomic databases Subscription model
Others Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation – – Social Science Computer Cooperative –Small Condor and statistical analysis – Space Science and Engineering Center – Sustainability and Global Environment –
Others, continued Digital Library Projects –Provide access to rare and fragile resources for research – High Energy Physics - GLOW – Medical Physics - GLOW –
Support Biology New Media Center –Research and teaching –Confederation of DoIT, CBE, and Biotech Center –Centrally supported –Gigabit connectivity to the desktops –Research and learning technology consulting 3D molecular modeling, biosequence analysis and phylogenetic analysis consulting Research communication Access to shared specialized resources
Support (continued) Research storage support Local > Shared > Archival DSpace (or something like it) –Provide storage for collected final works Datasets, research reports, etc. –Make these available to all researchers and teachers