Monthly RC Brownbag

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Monthly RC Brownbag

• Increase interaction between Research Computing
  (RC) and its users
• Inform users of upcoming activities
• Get feedback to help chart course
• Items of common interest
• Informal

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Monthly RC Brownbag

• Monthly Details TBA
• IUB
• Last Wednesday of the month
• IMU Maple Room 1230-130
• IUPUI
• First Tuesday of the month
• ICTC Room 157 1230-130

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Monthly RC Brownbag

• Future Topics
• Resource managers How to optimize my workflow
  and maximize throughput on research systems
• Filesystems Home directories, parallel
  filesystems, and scratch disks what's good bad
  for my purposes
• Data movement The comings goings of data and
  research systems
• Grid computing So many resources and so little
  time to use them
• Suggestions?

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AVIDDs Retirement Migration Options

• BigRed IBM e1350 BladeCenter Cluster
• 526 JS21 (PowerPC 970MP) blades
• 512 compute nodes
• 4 head nodes
• 1 gatekeeper
• Management nodes
• Cold spares
• GPFS
• Myrinet 2000
• LoadLeveler, Moab
• http//rc.uits.indiana.edu/rats/research/bigred

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AVIDDs Retirement Migration Options

• Libra AIX Cluster
• Various IBM Power, PPC architectures
• JS20 (PowerPC 970FX)
• p690 (POWER4)
• p575 (POWER5)
• Gigabit Ethernet Interconnect
• LoadLeveler, Moab
• http//rc.uits.indiana.edu/rats/research/libra/

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AVIDDs Retirement Migration Options

• TeraGrid http//www.teragrid.org/
• IUs Knowledge Base http//kb.iu.edu/
• What is the TeraGrid? http//kb.iu.edu/data/anag.h
  tm
• How do I apply for a TeraGrid Allocation?
  http//kb.iu.edu/data/asvz.html

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AVIDDs Retirement Migration Options

• What is the TeraGrid?
• The TeraGrid project is funded by the
  National Science Foundation and includes nine
  partnersNCAR,NCSA, SDSC, PSC, ORNL, Purdue,
  Indiana, TACC and UC/ANL.

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AVIDDs Retirement Migration Options

• How do I apply for a TeraGrid account?
• http//kb.iu.edu/data/anql.thml
• http//rc.uits.iu.edu/hpc/tg/request.shtml
• For assistance email hpc_at_indiana.edu
• What resources are available?
• http//www.teragrid.org/userinfo/hardware/resourc
  s.php?viewmachine_type

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AVIDDs Retirement Migration Options

• TeraGrid X86 platforms
• NCSA Abe cluster X86_64 RedHat EL 4
• NCSA Tungsten cluster X86 RedHat 9
• ORNL NSTG cluster X86 SuSE 10.2
• PSC BigBen cluster X86_64 SuSE/Catamount
• Purdue Lear cluster X86_64 RedHat EL 3
• TACC Lonestar cluster X86_64 Centos
• Avoided listing IA64 platforms they do
• not execute X86 instructions set natively

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Monthly RC Brownbag

• Comments? Questions?