TeraGrid Quarterly Meeting Arlington, VA Sep 6-7, 2007 NCSA RP Status Report

TeraGrid Quarterly Meeting Arlington, VA Sep 6-7, 2007

NCSA RP Status Report


HPCOPS

Supplemental award to the TG RP award John Towns will be PI, co-PIs Alameda, M. Butler, T. Cockerill, M.

Pflugmacher Operational support

System administration and maintenance for existing NCSA resources not already on original TG RP award

Networking Grid software support/TeraGrid integration Local allocations and account management

User support Local helpdesk Consulting Advanced applications support Training and Documentation Outreach and Education

Proposal is operational in nature – no projects, no milestones No funds for Development Activities


Systems

Abe 90 TF Dell BladeServer, 1200 Dual Socket/Quad-Core Intel64 Nodes, InfiniBand, 9.6 TB memory, 180

TB storage, OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (2.6.9) 50% of Abe’s cycles available to xRAC – system procured with State of Illinois funding Recommended Use Guidelines – for jobs requiring >1,000 cores Not a Roaming Resource, but has CTSS4 for multi-resource projects such as Coveney’s GENIUS

Tungsten 17 TF Dell Cluster, 1280 Dual Socket Intel Xeon IA-32, Myrinet, 4 TB memory, 140 TB storage, OS

Linux Red Hat 9.0 Recommended Use Guidelines – highly parallel codes needing a 32-bit environment and codes that

perform well in a distributed cluster environment. In addition, requests for extended access to 128-256 dual processor nodes for larger scale runs are encouraged.

Cobalt 6.6 TF SGI SMP, 1024 processor Intel Itanium2 IA-64 SMP, NUMALINK, 4 TB memory, 250 TB

storage, OS SGI ProPack 4.0.3 (Kernel: 2.6.5) Upgrade to ProPack 5 in progress Recommended Use Guidelines - jobs with moderate levels of parallelism (32-512 processors), large

shared-memory (over 250GB), codes with high inter-processor communications or inherent load balancing challenges which perform better in an SMP environment, large-scale interactive data analysis, high-end visualization (via access to the Prism systems)

Mercury 10.2TF IBM Cluster, 887 Dual Socket Intel Itanium2 IA-64, Myrinet, 4.6TB memory, 80 TB storage, OS

SuSE Linux SLES8 (2.4.21) Upgrading OS this year

Copper – retiring Sep 30, 2007 (IBM p690)


Science Gateways Support

GISolve GT4 GRAM auditing tools integration

• Evaluate what auditing capabilities will be of interest to the GISolve SGW PI and their community of users

• Integrate tools necessary for accessing GRAM auditing capabilities into the GISolve SGW

Community Restricted Shell• Integrate use of community restricted shell capability into GISolve

SGW

LEAD Support testing of reliability/scalability issues of GT 4.0.5 WS

GRAM Support testing of reliability/scalability issues of GT 4.0.5

GridFTP


Projects

NCSA’s TG RP/HPCOPS is highly operational, with projects generated

Current Projects LUSTRE-WAN and GPFS-WAN

• Adding Servers and Disk to enable 10 Gb/sec connection so we can get back on the testbed and drive toward production

Abe Integration Dark Energy Survey Database MSI Workshop Science Gateway Resource Utilization/Optimization


Additional slides with more detail on LEAD Weather Challenge


LEAD WxChallenge Support

67 institutions – www.wxchallenge.com 120 jobs x 16p/job – 5000 compute hours/d 0.5e6 cpu hours total Dedicated reservations on 2 NCSA resources during contest

hours Fall 2007

City I dentifier Dates

Cape Hatteras, NC KHSE September 24 - October 4

Great Falls, MT KGTF October 8 - October 18

Portland, ME KPWM October 22 - November 1

Peoria, IL KPIA November 5 - November 15

Wenatchee, WA KEAT November 26 - December 6

Spring 2008

City I dentifier Dates

New Orleans, LA KMSY J anuary 28 - February 7

Crescent City, CA KCEC February 11 - February 21

Toronto, ON, Canada CYYZ February 25 - March 6

Memphis, TN KMEM March 10 - March 20

TBD* TBD March 24 - April 3

Dodge City, KS** KDDC April 7 - April 25

* This city will be determined by a vote from all participants. * * Indicates Tournament City.


LEAD Research Support

Four projects (3 idealized, 1 ‘real data’)

Cell interaction: role of nearby cells on rotation, intensity (NSF funded)

Squall lines: role of latent cooling in MCS behavior (modified microphysics; NSF funded)

Gravity waves: study of intensity vs. environment (NSF funded; M.S. student)

Mesoscale ensemble modeling (cool+warm season, initial data & physics perturbations)

All will utilize the ensemble broker + MyLEAD

Brian Jewett, UIUC


LEAD Research Support

Credit: Brian Jewett, UIUC

Documents

TeraGrid Quarterly Meeting Arlington, VA Sep 6-7, 2007 NCSA RP Status Report