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Cary Whitney NERSC clwhitney@lbl.gov. LBNL/NERSC Site Report. Outline. Changes at NERSC What's new at PDSF Computational Systems Group (CSG) Advanced Systems Group (ASG) Mass Storage Future Technologies Group (FTG) Networking/Security Grid. LBNL/NERSC. LBNL/NERSC. NERSC.
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Cary Whitney NERSC clwhitney@lbl.gov LBNL/NERSC Site Report
Outline • Changes at NERSC • What's new at PDSF • Computational Systems Group (CSG) • Advanced Systems Group (ASG) • Mass Storage • Future Technologies Group (FTG) • Networking/Security • Grid
NERSC • Oakland building expansion (of sorts) • Finishing existing floor • Widening loading dock to create a parking structure • Building a new building next door. (Not NERSC funded.)
PDSF • Purchased a Zambeel system to use as /home and /spool • Added 60 Dual Athlons to the cluster • Added 15 - - 1 TB disk vaults • Demo of Maximum-Throughput system in works • Demo of AMD Hammer in works
CSG • We say good by to the Crays. The T3E and SV1 were decommissioned on Oct 1st.
Announcement of Blue Planet Http://www.nersc.gov/news/blueplanet.html CSG • Seaborg upgraded to AIX 5.1
ASG • Batch schedulers testing • Between LSF 5.1, OpenPBS/Maui, SGE, MauiME • Unlimited Scale SSI testing • Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov) • GUPFS • Max-T, Ibrix, GFS, Yotta Yotta, 3Par Data • EMC, Dot Hill, Qlogic • PCI-X • Rei Lee (rclee@lbl.gov)
Mass Storage • Added 20TB of cache for HPSS • Moving to 200GB tapes • Starting evaluation of Linux Movers • Beta for HPSS 5.1 DMAPI • Linux XFS/DMAPI
FTG • IB technologies • Linux checkpoint/restart
Network/Security • iperf.nersc.gov • Tested/beta 10GE • HIPPI/FIDDI removal from center • Planning stages for OC48 upgrade • SC2002 work • Eli Dart (dart@nersc.gov)
Grid • Getting grid services running on Seaborg • NERSC wide grid ldap server • Enabling Bro to recognize gsiftp and cactus sessions, or simple making Bro grid aware • Steve Chan (SYChan@lbl.gov)