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NCAR Computing Update. Tom Engel Scientific Computing Division National Center for Atmospheric Research Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences Workshop 11 September 2003. NCAR. Managed by UCAR Established 1959 66 Member & 20 Academic Affiliate Institutions. UCAR.
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NCAR Computing Update Tom Engel Scientific Computing Division National Center for Atmospheric Research Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences Workshop 11 September 2003 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
NCAR • Managed by UCAR • Established 1959 • 66 Member & 20 Academic Affiliate Institutions Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Member Institutions Board of Trustees President Richard Anthes Corporate Affairs Jack Fellows, VP Finance & Administration Katy Schmoll, VP NCAR Tim Killeen, Director Larry Winter, Deputy Director UCAR Office of Programs Jack Fellows, Director Education & Outreach Roberta Johnson Cooperative Program For Operational Meteorology Education and Training (COMET) Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere Climate (COSMIC) Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment(GLOBE) Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD) Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD) Advanced Study Program (ASP) Climate & Global Dynamics Division (CGD) Mary Marlino Timothy Spangler Bill Kuo Jack Fellows Daniel McKenna David Carlson Al Cooper Maurice Blackmon Environmental & Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) High Altitude Observatory (HAO) Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorological Division (MMM) Scientific Computing Division (SCD) Research Applications Programs (RAP) GPS Science & Technology Program (GST) Unidata Visiting Scientists Programs (VSP) Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) Nat’l Science Digital Library (NSDL) Robert Harriss Al Kellie Meg Austin Karyn Sawyer Bob Gall Brant Foote Randolph Ware Michael Knölker Mohan Ramamurthy David Fulker 6/03 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Scientific Computing Division (SCD) • enable the best atmospheric research in the world by providing and advancing high-performance computing technologies • offer computing, research datasets, data storage, networking, and data analysis tools to advance NCAR's scientific research agenda Purpose Facility Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
SCD’s Computational Facilities Two Computational Facilities One Infrastructure • Climate Simulation Laboratory • Community Facility Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
FY2003† Community Facility Computational Resource Usage by Discipline † To date: Oct’02-Aug’03 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
FY2003† CSL Facility Computational Resource Usage by Discipline † To date: Oct’02-Aug’03 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
FY2003† Total Computational Resource Usage by Discipline † To date: Oct’02-Aug’03 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Advanced Research Computing System • At last CAS ... Al Kellie announced the award of the ARCS Contract to IBM: • Fall ’01: 1.1 TFLOP upgrade to POWER3 system (blackforest) ... was underway during last CAS • Fall ’02: 4.8 TFLOP† POWER4 system (bluesky) • Fall ’03: Federation switch upgrade • Fall ’04: 8.75 TFLOP† system (bluesky upgrade) • A few things have changed ... • Fall ’02 • POWER4 capability short of contract commitment • additional initiative funding from NCAR • bluesky: 38-frame, p690 (Regatta) system, 6.3 TF † capability performance commitments Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
NCAR Computational Facility Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Peak Computing Capacity at NCAR Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Bluesky diurnal workload distribution Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Production Workload Distribution - bluesky Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Production Workload Distribution - blackforest Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
August ’03 queue-wait times - bluesky Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
August ’03 queue-wait times - blackforest Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
NCAR MSS Net Growth Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
NCAR MSS Growth vs. Sustained Computing Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
HPM Statistics Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
bluesky workload computation rate Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Federation IPCC ARCS Status – Fall ‘03 We thought we had our future planned ... Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Extra extra Commitment IPCC Scenarios Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
“bluesky upgrade” • IBM p690 augmentation to bluesky (Sep ’03) • +448 1.3 GHz POWER4 processors (in 14 node x 32 processor configuration) – 2.3 TFLOPs peak • +.896 TB memory, +10.5 TB disk • Maintenance, Federation Switch, 2-year ARCS extension renegotiated • Federation now 2H04 optionreduces risk during critical IPCC runs • Federation ECIP participation 3+4Q03 • 10 TFLOP POWER5 option Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Peak TFLOPs at NCAR Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Sustained GFLOPs at NCAR Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Thank You Questions? Sponsored by the National Science Foundation