Millennium Executive Committee Meeting

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Millennium Executive Committee Meeting

• David E. Culler
• Computer Science Division
• culler_at_cs.berkeley.edu
• http//www.cs.berkeley.edu/culler

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MM Proposed Cluster of Clusters
Business
SIMS
BMRC
Chemistry
C.S.
E.E.
Gigabit Ethernet
Astro
NERSC
M.E.
Physics
N.E.
Math
IEOR
Transport
Economy
C. E.
MSME
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Committments

• Intel provides 6 M in equipment
• Sun provides all Solaris x86 software
• Microsoft provides all NT software
• Campus provides staff to support the core
  infrastructure, networking
• CS will try to raise funds for the network and
  campus cluster infra.
• Departments provide 1/2 of system admin for own
  side and 20 K for group cluster
• racks, network, software, ...

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Where are we?

• Hardware deployment
• Software availability
• Cluster Environment
• Grants
• Networking

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Current Environment

• All projects have servers and several desktops
• last few in current shipment
• millennium.berkeley.edu domain established
• solaris shared servers with 60GB disks
• www.millennium.berkeley.edu, MM.millennium.berkel
  ey.edu
• imap, ...
• solaris/x86 sww served from CS servers
• NT domain server with 60 GB disks
• MMNT.millennium.berkeley.edu
• exchange, file, ...
• First cluster ready for use
• NSF SimMillennium grant to cover network
• Two of three Millennium staff hired

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Hardware Deployment
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Basic Software Tools

• Standard Unix Tools /usr/sww/bin
• 484 packages
• GNU Tools
• gcc, g (version 2.8.1), gdb, g...
• Sun ProWorks
• workshop development environment
• C, C, F77
• Debugger
• Sun Performance Library /usr/sww/lib
• Sun Math Library

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Cluster Developments

• 4 x 4 PentiumPro Cluster ready
• Full NOW environment
• Glunix, MPI, Active Messages, Split-C
• titanium protoype
• Transfering to Cory to debug deployment
• CS / Civil Eng. Consortium has been shaking it
  out
• petc graph partitioner, finite element classes,
• ScaLapack (???)
• Have parts for three 8x2 Pentium II clusters
• AstroPhysics
• Soda Solaris x86 to be shipped out
• Soda NT cluster

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Grants

• NSF CISE Research Infrastructure grant
• cluster networking
• inter-cluster networking (campus mgmt)
• computational economy staff support
• visualization
• devoted to CS research with disciplinary applns
• Bay Networks 70 discount up to 5 M
• gigabit networks
• IBM SUR disk towers
• IBM CS extension to PDA access
• NSF Science and Tech. Centers in process
• any more???

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Networking

• Campus using Millennium to drive planning
• CNS is working closely with us.
• Testing gigabit ethernet
• Campbell, Evans, Davis moving forward
• CS will be able to cover the intracluster network
  (Myrinet) and gigabit switch in the group
  clusters
• frees up some of the committed resources

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Going forward

• Roll out group clusters over next few quarters
• Roll out gigabit interconnect
• Build up the cluster programming tools
• Intel Merced pushed out
• campus cluster delayed
• utilize NOW as an alternative
• combine with NPACI infrastructure
• Exploring cluster technology
• VIA
• Synfinity, ServerNet, Gigabit Ethernet
• Exploring NT

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Holes (in my view)

• Sense of community
• Fertile exchange and collaboration
• Definition of Computational Science Challenges
• Clear commitment to programming models
• Orderly, informed software environment
• Clear information exchange
• who do you call
• Well organized mailing list
• Low overhead management, progress reports,
• Really exciting web site