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Overview SARA HPC Jules Wolfrat SARA

Overview SARA HPC Jules Wolfrat SARA. NE ROC Meeting October 28, 2004. www.eu-egee.org. EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833. SARA: HPC services. Hosting of National Supercomputer service for the Scientific community in the Netherlands

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Overview SARA HPC Jules Wolfrat SARA

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  1. Overview SARA HPCJules WolfratSARA NE ROC Meeting October 28, 2004 www.eu-egee.org EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833

  2. SARA: HPC services • Hosting of National Supercomputer service for the Scientific community in the Netherlands • Hosting of large compute facilities for scientific institutions • UvA and NCF (Beowulf cluster) • VU + FOM institutes (IBM Cluster1600) • Grid computing • User support • Optimization and parallelization of user codes • Backup services (TSM) NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  3. Beowulf Linux cluster • UvA • 126 AMD Athlon 700 MHz nodes • 42 AMD Athlon 1200 MHz nodes • disk: 8 Gbyte/node • network: 100 Mbit switched Ethernet between nodes, 1 Gbit Ethernet to the fileservers • 3 Intel dual CPU file servers • 200 GB IDE RAID per server • 9 AMD Athlon 1600XP+ 1400 MHz Testcluster • Gigabit Ethernet NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  4. Beowulf Linux cluster • 272 Dual Xeon (3.4GHz) processor nodes NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  5. IBM Cluster1600 NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  6. Cluster1600 configuration • One frame with 3 winterhawk nodes • 4 power3 CPUs per node (375 MHz) • 4 GB memory per node • Gigabit Ethernet • 6 p690 nodes • 4 * 32 power4 processors (1.1 GHz) • 2 * 32 power4 processors (1.7 GHz) • 32 GB memory per node • Gigabit Ethernet • PCI-based SPswitch2 adapter • SP switch (250 MB/s) • GPFS File system (0.75 TB) NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  7. Supercomputer facilities • Currently two systems, an SGI Origin3800 with 1024 MIPS CPUs and SGI ALTIX system with 416 Itanium CPUs • Origin 3800 - partitioned (7), shared memory per partition • ALTIX – 64 cpu nodes with shared memory SGI Origin 3800 SGI/Intel Altix 3700 NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  8. Tape facilities • Tape library with capacity of 1.2 PByte • Tape drive bandwidth 30MB/s uncompressed, 45MB/s compressed • Second tape library to be placed soon • starting with 250TB capacity (at Almere). Can grow to 60PB! SL8500 NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  9. TERAS Storage Element • Serviced by SGI Origin3800 partition • 32x R14k mips 500 MHz, 1GB/processor • Shared memory • TERAS Interactive node and Grid SE • Mass Storage environment • SGI TP9100, 14 TB RAID5, FC-based • CXFS SAN shared file system • Home file systems • Grid SE file system - max 400 MB/s • Batch scratch file systems • DMF/TMF Hierarchical Storage Management • Transparent data migration to tape – files always visible • Home file systems and Grid SE file system NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  10. Storage Element NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

  11. SAN infrastructure Interactive partition Grid SE NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004 - 11

  12. NL Grid cluster • 36 dual 3 GHz Intel Xeon nodes, 2GB memory, 240GB disk space • 1 node File server with 1 TB RAID storage • Gigabit Ethernet interconnect • Services • Access node, Resource Broker, Data services and Information services • LCG 2 NE ROC meeting, Amsterdam, October 28, 2004

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