1. NICS RP Update TeraGrid Round Table March 10, 2011 Ryan Braby NICS HPC Operations Group Lead

2. Management changes  Patricia Kovatch is the Interim NICS Project Director.  Ryan Braby is the new HPC Operations and Technology Integration Group Lead. –Started Jan 1 st. –Over 12 years experience in HPC Systems Administration and Integration. –Experienced with large IBM Power based systems, BlueGene systems, Linux clusters, and Lustre.

3. Kraken XT5 Specifications Compute processor typeAMD 2.6 GHz Istanbul-6 Compute cores112,896 Compute sockets18,816 Compute nodes9,408 Memory per node16 GB (1.33 GB/core) Total memory147 TB Peak system performance1.17 PF Interconnect topology25 x 16 x 24 Torus/Seastar2+ Parallel file system space3.3 PB (raw) 2.4 PB (usable) Parallel file system peak performance30 GB/s

4. Athena XT4 Specifications Compute processor typeAMD 2.3 GHz Barcelona-4 Compute cores18,048 Compute sockets4,512 quad-core Compute nodes4,512 Memory per node4 GB (1 GB/core) Total memory17.6 TB Peak system performance0.166 PF Interconnect topology12 x 16 x 24 Torus/Seastar Parallel file system space100 TB (raw) 85 TB (usable) Parallel file system peak performance10 GB/s

5. Nautilus SGI UltraViolet Specs Compute processor typeIntel ~2.0 GHz Nehalem Compute cores1024 Compute sockets (nodes)128 oct-core Memory per core4 GB Total memory4 TB (NUMA) Accelerators16 NVIDIA Fermi GPUs (8 active) Peak system performance8.2 TF Interconnect topologyNUMAlink5 Parallel file system space1 PB (960 TB useable, GPFS) Parallel file system peak performance24 GB/s

6. Kraken Job Mix - Annual

7. Kraken Job Mix – Jan 2011 HPC Ops Report Jan 2011

8. Kraken and Athena Utilization % Month HPC Ops Report Jan 2011

9. Cycles Provided to TeraGrid 9

10. Upcoming Events / Work at NICS  Kraken upgrade to CLE 2.2 Update 3 –March 23 rd, 8am to 5pm. –No changes required by users. –Should improve system stability.  Annual power outage / electrical maintenance –Target is April 2 nd, currently planned for 16 hours.