1. Condor@Cardiff Dr Hugh Beedie Dr James Osborne

2. Condor_History@Cardiff Led by Information Services directorate –Not by the School of Computer Science –A Solution looking for problems Began as a pilot project in April 2004 First user from the School of Business Supported on a best efforts basis for 21 months Funding for 1yr post from January 2006 JO Novell Zenworks to deliver to workstations HB

3. Condor_Pool@Cardiff Windows only Student workstations initially Now adding staff workstations Now up to 1400 workstations Demand growing near supply Plans to add more staff workstations Plans to experiment with flocking Lots of applications HB

4. Central Manager 1400 Workstations 25 Workstations Submit Nodes Execute Nodes master, startd, starter master, schedd, shadow master, collector, negotiator

5. Condor_Takes_Flight@Cardiff Expansive Forces All publicity is good publicity –Presentations Tag on to research seminars Given on request –Newsletters Cardiff News x3 with focus on COMSC, OPTOM, BIOSI Research Fortnight (like www.researchresearch.com)www.researchresearch.com Word of mouth –Alice is a happy user, tells Bob, Bob is a happy user Donations of more machines to the pool –Progressive Local Computing Representatives JO

6. Condor_Takes_Flight@Cardiff Compressive Forces Need more machines in the pool –Resistive Local Computing Representatives Need more heterogeneity in the pool –Windows only pool today –Windows and Linux pool in the future ? Campus level pool, not a school level pool Dual Boot or CoLinux –Too much effort Virtual Machines –Maybe with VMWare Player 6 and Lab Manager Environmental restrictions –IP address space, MAC addresses  NAT JO

7. Condor_Depts@Cardiff ARCHI = School of Architecture BIOSI = School of Biosciences CARBS= School of Business COMSC= School of Computer Science ENGIN= School of Engineering EPIDE= School of Epidemiology HISAR= School of History and Archaeology INSRV = Information Services Directorate MATHS= School of Mathematics OPTOM= School of Optometry and Vision Sciences PHYSX= School of Physics SOCSI= School of Social Sciences JO

8. Condor_Apps@Cardiff ARCHI = Energyplus BIOSI = Blast, Lea, Leadmix, Paup, R, Structure CARBS= Oxcal, Monte Carlo - Econometric Modelling COMSC= Matlab, Monte Carlo - Radiation Transport, Monte Carlo - WIFI Roaming, Image Processing ENGIN= Travelling Salesman Problem, Geological Modelling EPIDE= R HISAR= Oxcalwin INSRV = Perl, Grinder MATHS= Computational Fluid Dynamics - Polymers and Gels OPTOM= Dammin, Damfilt, Gasbor PHYSX= Fourier Analysis SOCSI= Siesta* JO

9. Condor_Users@Cardiff ARCHI 1* BIOSI 5 CARBS 2 COMSC 2 ENGIN 2 EPIDE 2 HISAR 2* INSRV 1 MATHS 2 OPTOM 2 PHYSX 1 SOCSI 1* JO

10. Condor_Users@Cardiff Q1 2006 JO

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12. Condor_Users@Cardiff Q3 2006 JO

13. Condor_Users@Cardiff Q4 2006 JO

14. Condor_Users@Cardiff Q1 2007 JO

15. Condor_Usage@Cardiff JO

16. Condor_Issues@Cardiff Full Economic Costing –Can it be done ? –How to hook new users ? Give them an inch and make them pay for a mile (later) –How to re-assure resource owners ? National Grid Service –Ours is the only Windows based Condor pool –Our adaptations to the GITS tests not ratified yet Campus Grid Roadmap –Access (portal vs command line) MWE –Authentication (managing and hiding certificates) SHIB HB

17. Condor_Research@Cardiff Osborne, J and Hardisty, A. Cardiff Universitys Condor Pool: Background, Case Studies, and fEC. In S. Cox, editor, Proceedings of 5th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, pages 361-364, Nottingham, UK, September 18th to September 21st 2006. Baldock, C., Siegler, V., Bax, D.V., Cain, S.A., Mellody, K.T., Marson, A., Haston, J.L., Berry, R., Wang, M.C., Grossmann, J.G., Roessle, M., Kielty, C.M., Wess, T.J. (2006) Nanostructure of fibrillin-1 reveals compact conformation of EGF arrays and mechanism for extensibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103: 11922-11927. Dyksterhuis, L.B., Baldock, C., Lammie, D., Wess, T.J., Weiss, A.S. (2007) Domains 17*27 of tropoelastin contain key regions of contact for coacervation and contain an unusual turn-containing crosslinking domain. Matrix Biology, 26:125-135. HB

18. Summary Positive research impact –3 research papers Efficient use of resources –Clusters are wasted on uncoupled jobs Saves power and the environment –Compared to clusters Campus level pools vs school level pools –Automate, automate, automate HB