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1 High Performance Computing at Mississippi State University

2 Building Facilities HPC Building - Starkville o CCS, GRI, PET, SimCtr o 71,000 square feet o 3,500 square ft. data center 600 KW generator 60 tons A/C CAVS Building Starkville o CAVS o 57,000 square feet o 850 square ft. data center 230 KW generator 20 tons A/C Stennis Space Center Bay St. Louis o NGI o 2 large suites in Bldg 1103 o 1,350 square ft. data center 40 KW UPS 20 tons A/C

3 HPC 2 Computing yesterday and today

4 Early Technology Adoption Cluster Computing 1987 Message Passing Interface (MPI) MSU/ANL MPICH High performance interconnects Myrinet InfiniBand 2003 Visualization Virtual Reality systems CAVE applications 1995 Viz cluster

5 History of Cluster Computing at MSU MADEM - Mapped Array Differential Equation Machine DARPA funded project Based on 8 Sun 4/110 workstations MSPARC/8 8 Sun SPARCstation 2 workstations

6 History of Cluster Computing at MSU SuperMSPARC 8 Sun SPARCstation 10 s 32 processors 2.25 GB of memory Ethernet, Myrinet, and ATM interconnects. Developed original Myrinet drivers for SunOS/Solaris MSU-designed wormhole router and custom SBUS probe boards Still running!

7 History of Cluster Computing at MSU 1999 UltraMSPARC 64 processors 32 GB of memory 16 nodes based on Sun Ultra AXmp motherboard Processors donated by Sun Microelectronics Division Myrinet interconnect

8 History of Cluster Computing at MSU 2001 EMPIRE IBM x330 nodes Built in three phases during 2001 and Intel Pentium III processors 607 GB of memory Ranked 127 th overall on June 2002 Top 500 list

9 History of Cluster Computing at MSU 2003 Maverick IBM x335 diskless nodes 384 Intel Xeon Processors 480 GB of memory InfiniBand interconnect Ranked 160 th overall on June 2004 Top 500 list 2003 Gremlin IBM graphics workstations 20 nodes with high-end graphics IBM T221 monitor (3840x2400)

10 History of Cluster Computing at MSU 2006 Raptor Sun X2200 diskless nodes 2048 AMD Opteron Processors 4 TB of memory 2-tier 10-Gb/s & 1-Gb/s Ethernet interconnect 32 30A 3-phase power connections ~145 kw ~ 40 tons of air conditioning Ranked 115 th overall on November 2006 Top 500 list

11 Top 500 Supercomputer Sites List Date System Rank June 1996 Chippewa 359 November 1996 Chippewa 468 June 1998 Navajo 325 November 1998 Navajo 481 June 1999 Navajo 259 Published biannually by the University of Tennessee- Knoxville and the University of Mannheim since June November 1999 June 2001 November 2001 June 2002 November 2002 June 2003 Navajo EMPIRE EMPIRE EMPIRE EMPIRE EMPIRE Lists the 500 most powerful computers in the world based on LINPACK Benchmark November 2003 June 2004 November 2004 June 2005 Maverick Maverick Maverick Maverick MSU HPC 2 has appeared on 17 of 23 lists since June November 2006 June 2007 Raptor Raptor

12 Aggregate Computing Capabilities (GFLOPS) EMPIRE Raptor IBM x330 Cluster Sun X M2 processors Cluster 2048 processor 1158 GFLOPS cores GFLOPS Billion Calculations per Second Kate SuperMSPARC Navajo Maverick Chippewa MSU Design Sun HPC IBM x335 Cluster Intel ipsc/860 Sun SGI 64 processors processors 32 processors SPARCstation CHALLENGE GFLOPS InfiniBand 1.28 GFLOPS 32 processors 16 processors 2350 GFLOPS GFLOPS 6.24 GFLOPS Year

13 Computational Resources General Purpose Servers Titan: Sun V880, 4p, 8 GB Frigg: Sun V450, 4p, 4 GB Computational SMP Servers Delta: Sun V880, 8p, 16 GB Phoenix: SGI O3K, 64p, 64 GB Pershing: SGI O3K, 128p, 128GB Javelin: Sun X4600, 16p, 32GB TBD*: SGI O3K, 512p, 512GB Other Servers 164 processors in Sun SPARC servers 104 additional processors in x86- based servers (Windows and Linux) Computational Clusters Raptor: Sun Linux Cluster 2048p, 2.6GHz DC Opteron 4 TB RAM, Ethernet Maverick: IBM Linux Cluster 384p, 3.06 GHz P4 Xeon 480 GB RAM, InfiniBand Empire: IBM Linux Cluster 1038p, 1/1.26 GHz P3 607 GB RAM, Ethernet Visualization Servers Bob: SGI Onyx2, 8p, 16GB Tao: SGI Onyx2, 4p, 4GB

14 Special Purpose Computing Resources Compute Harpoon: Sun V880, 8p, 16GB RAM (CAVS) Apex: Sun X4600, 16p, 32GB RAM (CAVS) Sparrow: 17 nodes, IBM x335 (CAVS) Tomahawk: Sun V20z, 2p, 8GB RAM (SimCtr) NRPC: 6 nodes, Sun X2100 and X4100 (GRI) Visualization Gremlin: IBM cluster, 20p (GRI) CAVE: Fakespace FLEX, 4-wall immersive Installation beginning late October 2007 Infrastructure Authentication: Sniper, Radius, Bullet, Redstone, Thor, Anubis File servers: Polaris, Moab, Moab-GRI, Moab-SimCtr, Moab-CAVS, Lustre (x6), NRPC-nfs, Tiger-01 Database: Yeager, Mclaren Web servers: Infoserv, Loki, Shrike, Trac, NRPC, Gridportal, Ccg01, Webvis, Webmail Miscellaneous: Patriot, Peacekeeper, ACSLS, Altiris, Rdesktop1, Rdesktop2, Scud, Spiral, Griims, Groupwise, Terra, Scalpel, Falcon, Tachyon, Romulus, Vulcan, Shrimp Desktops 250 Faculty/Staff desktops & laptops 190 Student desktops

15 Storage 92 TB of high performance, networked, and backed-up disk space 10 TB of high performance, networked, working space 10 TB of high performance, distributed, working space 2 PB near-line (simulated disk space) tape storage system

16 Local Area Network 10-Gigabit Ethernet backbone 3 Core, high performance switches Connectivity between HPC and CAVS buildings Gb/s ports Connectivity for all primary servers and primary edge devices 98 Edge devices Gb/s ports Connectivity all primary desktops and non-primary servers Mb/s ports InfiniBand (10Gb/s, low latency) cluster network 3 high performance switches 192 switch ports

17 Wide Area Network HPC 2 connection to MSU campus backbone 10-Gb/s MSU wide area network 1-Gb/s to commodity internet, Internet2/NewNet, National Lambda Rail (NLR) 10-Gb/s to Internet2/NewNet, NLR, National Science Foundation TeraGrid, Dept. of Energy UltraScience net, and other high-bandwidth national research networks Build-out underway now; expected availability in early 2008 Via dedicated TVA fiber optic lines to DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN) Capable of expansion to 80-Gb/s

18 Fakespace FLEX Virtual Reality Device Three projected walls plus floor Acoustic motion tracking Active and passive 3-D stereo viewing Reconfigurable into a Powerwall for large groups

19 Questions?

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