1. LBNL/NERSC Site Report Cary Whitney NERSC clwhitney@lbl.gov

2. Outline ● Changes at NERSC ● What's new at PDSF ● Computational Systems Group (CSG) ● Advanced Systems Group (ASG) ● Mass Storage ● Future Technologies Group (FTG) ● Networking/Security ● Grid

3. LBNL/NERSC

5. NERSC ● Oakland building expansion (of sorts) ● Finishing existing floor ● Widening loading dock to create a parking structure ● Building a new building next door. (Not NERSC funded.)

6. PDSF ● Purchased a Zambeel system to use as /home and /spool ● Added 60 Dual Athlons to the cluster ● Added 15 - - 1 TB disk vaults ● Demo of Maximum- Throughput system in works ● Demo of AMD Hammer in works

7. CSG ● We say good by to the Crays. The T3E and SV1 were decommissioned on Oct 1st.

8. CSG ● Seaborg upgraded to AIX 5.1 ● Announcement of Blue Planet – Http://www.nersc.gov/news/blueplanet.html

9. ASG ● Batch schedulers testing – Between LSF 5.1, OpenPBS/Maui, SGE, MauiME ● Unlimited Scale SSI testing – Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov) ● GUPFS – Max-T, Ibrix, GFS, Yotta Yotta, 3Par Data – EMC, Dot Hill, Qlogic – PCI-X – Rei Lee (rclee@lbl.gov)

10. Mass Storage ● Added 20TB of cache for HPSS ● Moving to 200GB tapes ● Starting evaluation of Linux Movers ● Beta for HPSS 5.1 DMAPI ● Linux XFS/DMAPI

11. FTG ● IB technologies ● Linux checkpoint/restart

12. Network/Security ● iperf.nersc.gov ● Tested/beta 10GE ● HIPPI/FIDDI removal from center ● Planning stages for OC48 upgrade ● SC2002 work – Eli Dart (dart@nersc.gov)

13. Grid ● Getting grid services running on Seaborg ● NERSC wide grid ldap server ● Enabling Bro to recognize gsiftp and cactus sessions, or simple making Bro grid aware – Steve Chan (SYChan@lbl.gov)