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 & NLRAbilene 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

• http://wail.cs.wisc.edu/

• 50 IP routers and switches

• 100 end hosts

• Other networking gear

• create arbitrary configurationsof systems

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Condor• Hunting for wasted computing resoruces• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/• 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

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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

– http://loci.wisc.edu/ – http://openmicroscopy.org

• Social Science Computer Cooperative– Small Condor and statistical analysis– http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/

• Space Science and Engineering Center– http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/

• Sustainability and Global Environment– http://www.sage.wisc.edu/

Others, continued

• Digital Library Projects– Provide access to rare and fragile resources

for research– http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/index.html

• High Energy Physics - GLOW– http://www.hep.wisc.edu/computing

• Medical Physics - GLOW– http://www.medphysics.wisc.edu/cluster

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

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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