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Illinois Campus Cluster Program User Forum. October 24, 2012 Illini Union Room 210 2:00PM – 3:30PM. Agenda. Welcome/Introductions Mission Statement User Forum Logistics Overview of Second Instance of Illinois Campus Cluster Governance Open Discussion Adjourn. Welcome/Introductions.
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Illinois Campus Cluster ProgramUser Forum October 24, 2012 Illini Union Room 210 2:00PM – 3:30PM
Agenda • Welcome/Introductions • Mission Statement • User Forum Logistics • Overview of Second Instance of Illinois Campus Cluster • Governance • Open Discussion • Adjourn
Welcome/Introductions • John Towns • operations manager • Wayne Louis Hoyenga • lead systems administrator • Susan John • lead user support • Martin Biernat • project manager
Mission Statement Provide a collaborative forum for the Illinois Campus Cluster Program user community to share knowledge, experiences, and ideas to most effectively utilize the Illinois Campus Cluster Program resources.
User Forum Logistics • Would like the user community to drive meeting content. • How often do you want to want to have face-to-face meetings • Electronic forum? User Portal? • Training?
Overview of Second Instance of Illinois Campus Cluster • Summary of Overall Environment • Investor Management of Investments across Instances • Second Cluster Overview • Basic System Configuration • New Capabilities
Summary of Overall Environment:what it means to you • Create single computing environment • single virtual cluster with multiple instances incorporated • single queuing across all nodes. • by default, jobs won’t span clusters, but that is configurable. • Establish a shared storage environment • all storage visible to both cluster instances • parallel file system (GPFS) spanning cluster instances • 440TB total initially; >1.5PB capacity • configurable home directory quotas.
Investor Management of Investments across Instances • Compute resources • specify which user’s jobs are supposed to be run on which instance • users specify which jobs run on which instances, if desired, within Investor constraints • Storage resources • investments in storage all part of same storage pool • visible to all compute resources • configurable quotas • home directories; project space
Second Cluster Instance Overview • Mix of Ethernet-only and Ethernet + InfiniBand connected nodes • cost increment for IB enabled nodes • assume 50-100% will be IB enabled • Mix of CPU-only and CPU+GPU nodes • cost increment for GPUs • assume up to 25% of nodes will have GPUs • New storage device • added to shared storage environment
Basic System Configuration • Dell PowerEdge C8220 2-socket Intel E5-2670 • 8-core Sandy Bridge processors @ 2.60GHz • Memory configuration options: • 2GB/core, 4GB/core, and 8GB/core • Options: • InfiniBand FDR (otherwise 1 GigE connection only) • NVIDIA M2090 Accelerator Units • Storage investments via DDN SFA12000 • can add in 30TB (raw) increments
New capabilities • VM hosting and related services • persistent services and other needs directly related to use of compute/storage resources • New “fast data transfer” nodes • allow for different protocols of data access to/from the cluster, e.g. • SAMBA • NFS (being considered) • GridFTP, Globus Online (Globus Transfer) • GFFS (tracking experiments with this elsewhere)
Governance • Elements of governance structures being established • Executive Steering Committee • Investor Forum • Illinois Campus Cluster Program Operators • Structure and process/timeline impacted by establishment of campus IT governance structure
Relationship to Campus IT Governance • Original Campus Cluster Program not placed into any larger governance structure • Campus established new IT governance structure early in 2012 • http://itgov.illinois.edu/ • Research Committee established • http://itgov.illinois.edu/committees/research/ • “charged with recommending strategic directions and related policies, priorities, and services for IT in support of research.” • subcommittee to Governance Executive Committee • Illinois Campus Cluster Program now responsible to Research Committee • currently working through details of modification to Program governance with Research Committee
Open Discussion • This is your opportunity to share with the Illinois Campus Cluster Program Team your thoughts. • Drawing a blank? Think about: • What do you like about the campus cluster? • What areas of the campus cluster program needs improvement? • What things have you not quite figured out? • What do you spend most of your time doing when using the campus cluster? • What training do you wish was available?
Adjourn • Thank you for providing your thoughts. • Please feel free to contact us at help@campuscluster.illinois.edu