The University of Sunderland Grid Computer

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The University of Sunderland Grid Computer
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Funding Body

• Science Research Investment Fund -
• SRIF 3
• Funding - 431K
• SRIF3 - 90 and UoS - 10
• Project duration just over one year
• Operational by late December 2006

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SRIF3 coordinator

• Heriot Watt University

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Potential Grid Computer Vendors

• Dell selected vendor
• CompuSys SE England
• Streamline - midlands
• Fujitsu - Manchester
• ClusterVision - Dutch
• OCF - Sheffield

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General requirements

• General purpose computer
• Built using standard components
• Commodity off the shelf COTS
• Low cost
• Reuse existing skills
• Easy to maintain - hopefully

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Areas of application

• Media systems rendering
• Networking experiments
• Engineering computing
• Numerical optimisation
• Video streaming
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Local and remote virtual computing

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Application cont

• Parallel distributed computing
• Distributed databases
• Remote teaching experiments
• Semantic web
• Search large image databases
• Search engine development
• Web based data analysis etc

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Grid Hardware

• Dell compute nodes
• Cisco networking
• Grid design completed by both Dell and Cisco

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Basic building blocks

• Compute nodes
• Dell PE2950 server
• http//www.dell.com/downloads/emea/products/pedge/
  en/PE2950_Spec_Sheet_Final.pdf

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Web servers

• PE1950
• http//www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/results
  .aspx/servers?ckanavcuklensbsdcsukbsdt1
  a56301818navla56301818

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Cisco 6509 router

• Cisco 6509 URL
• http//www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps
  708/ps711/index.html
• Cisco 720 supervisor
• http//www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps
  708/products_data_sheet09186a0080159856.html

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Master Rack A

• Linux and Microsoft
• 2 PE2950 control nodes
• 5 PE1950 web servers
• Cisco Catalyst 6509
• 7600 supervisor
• 2 720 supervisors
• 4 48 port cards (192 ports)

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Master Rack A cont

• Disk storage 1 MD1000
• Power supply
• 5 kVA APC (hard wired 24 Amp PSU)

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Infiniband Rack B

• 6 PE2950 with HCAs
• 1 Cisco 7000P
• Host channel adapter HCA link
• http//www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6428/index.h
  tml
• Infiniband
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand

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Cisco Infiniband Switch

• Cisco 7000p
• http//www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7000/index.h
  tml

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General compute Rack C

• 8 PE2950 computer nodes
• Product details
• http//www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/product
  details.aspx/pedge_2950?cuklensbsdcsukbsdt1
  

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General compute Rack D

• 9 PE2950 compute nodes
• Benchmark
• http//www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedg
  e/en/specjbb2005_benchmark.pdf

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Rack

• A 1 - 2 control (5 servers) GigE
• B 1 6 Infiniband
• C 2 8 (16) GigE
• D 2 9 (18) GigE
• Total - 42

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Rack Layout

• - D C A B C D -
• F D C A B C D F
• Future expansion - F

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Dell Server 2950

• Number of nodes 40 1(lin) 1(win)
• Number of compute nodes 40
• Intel Xeon Woodcrest 2.66GHz
• Two dual core processors
• GigE NICs 4 off per server
• RAM 8G, 2G per core
• Disks 250G SATA II

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Data storage

• Master nodes via PERC5e to MD1000 using 15 x 500G
  SATA drives
• Disk storage 7.5T
• MD1000 URL
• http//www.dell.com/content/products/productdetail
  s.aspx/pvaul_md1000?cuslensbsdcs04

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Data storage

• Linux 8 disks
• MS 2003 Server HPC 7 disks
• Dell have organised a special collaboration with
  MS and Cisco
• Dell have proposed that the UoS Grid will become
  a flagship demonstrator site for Dell, Cisco and
  Microsoft

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Power

• Cab No Watts
• A 1 - 5842
• B 1 - 2286
• C 2 - 5936
• D 2 - 6678
• Total 20742

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Access workstation

• Dell workstations 10
• HD displays LCD 4 off
• Size 32 inch wall mounted

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Software
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Workstation Software

• Linux Redhat Enterprise
• Linux Workstation Edition
• MS Windows Server 2003 HPC
• MS Virtual PC
• VMWare server

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Scali

• Scali Management software
• http//www.scali.com/
• Scali datasheet
• http//www.scali.com/images/stories/WhitePapers/sc
  ali_manage20updated.pdf

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Other software

• Apache
• Tomcat
• Compilers C, Java
• Servers FTPD etc