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Research Computing Panel CSG Seattle '02

Research Computing Support at Penn State. Research Computing Panel CSG Seattle '02. Penn State. 82K students 4K faculty, 10K staff 24 locations PA's land grant. Research at Penn State. 20+ Colleges, Consortia, etc. $500M research annually (out of $2.4B total)

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Research Computing Panel CSG Seattle '02

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  1. Research Computing Support at Penn State Research Computing PanelCSG Seattle '02

  2. Penn State • 82K students • 4K faculty, 10K staff • 24 locations • PA's land grant

  3. Research at Penn State • 20+ Colleges, Consortia, etc. • $500M research annually (out of $2.4B total) • Navy, HHS, NSF, NASA etc. make up about half • Industry, state, etc. make up the rest • Near term areas of emphasis/strength • Life sciences • Children, Youth and Families Consortium • Materials

  4. Goal • Fill in gaps in research enterprise to: • Make research easier to do • Make research less expensive to do • Reduce time to discovery • Take risks where faculty can't or won't • Lead by example quickly or get out of the way even more quickly

  5. Background • As with everything else on campus - research, research computing, and research computing support is a highly distributed venture with an amazingly mobile and changing set of spheres of influence • Fine-grained (PI level) and profound independence

  6. Research Computing Support at PSU • Software • Hardware • Consulting

  7. Software • Site license mgt for appropriate software • Roots in site licensing for various unix Oses • Includes titles such as SAS, SPSS, Labview, NASTRAN, FIDAP, IDEAS, GAUSSIAN, Mathematica, Matlab, NAG, IMSL, etc. • We'll seed new acquisitions and help market their usefulness • Software on our on resources that might fall out of this

  8. Software • Bioinformatics portal - collection of genomics tools in one place • ETD support

  9. Hardware • IBM SP - seeing limited use at this point • Large memory cluster- AIX based • Intel clusters • Lion-X (32x2 500MHz PIII) • Myrinet, GigE, 100Mb • Lion-XE (112x2 1GHz PIII) • Dolphin, 100Mb • Lion-XL (80+x2 2.4 Ghz PIII) • Quadrics,100Mb + Bluearc

  10. Hardware (?) • OpenPBS • Maui scheduler consortium member • Compilers du jour, numerical libraries • All hardware acquired via consortium building • We make a technology decision considering many factors, and get others to buy in. In return, they share unused cycles. $ come from lots places: NSF MRI, SCREMS, IGERT, etc. • Also run a co-location center

  11. Hardware (?) • Visualization • Immersadesk • Immersive Environments Lab • Plotting • Outside of central IT • Clusters • 10-15 small to large clusters out there (16 to 100 nodes) • We'll help where we can and share all we know • Many instances of less than efficient operation and performance

  12. Hardware (?) • Outside of central IT • Clusters • 10-20 small to large clusters out there (16 to 100 nodes) • We'll help where we can and share all we know • Many instances of less than efficient operation and performance • Visualization • 3 RAVEs • C3 (CAVE) in Applied Research Lab

  13. Hardware • Partnerships • Level 2 iVDGL site • Tobacco $ • Meteorology, Math, Stat, Astrophysics, etc.

  14. Consulting • Distributed workstation sys admin - cost recovered • We'll help you build a cluster but will encourage you to see the benefits in partnering with us • We'll help you port codes to a dist. Mem. Par. computing model • Statistical consulting done elsewhere - Stat, Social Science Research Institute, Meth. Ctr.

  15. Grid • Hype:reality ratio is heading back towards one instead of infinity which is a good thing • We'll try to put a man on on Mars too but if we wind up only getting to the Moon, that'll be OK and still very cool and useful. • As already mentioned, iVDGL

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