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A Research Computing Infrastructure for Edinburgh

A Research Computing Infrastructure for Edinburgh. who are we building this for?. local researchers, eg. Computational: UoE HPC service, BlueGene/L, BlueDwarf … Data: ScotGrid, QCDGrid, eDIKT, … national research consortia Computational: QCDOC, HPC x, DEISA Data: NDCC visitors

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A Research Computing Infrastructure for Edinburgh

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  1. A Research ComputingInfrastructure for Edinburgh

  2. who are we building this for? • local researchers, eg. • Computational: UoE HPC service, BlueGene/L, BlueDwarf … • Data: ScotGrid, QCDGrid, eDIKT, … • national research consortia • Computational: QCDOC, HPCx, DEISA • Data: NDCC • visitors • Computational: HPC-Europa visitor programme • Data: eSI • … new projects/bids • HECToR, Brain Imaging, systems biology … • next generation machine design …

  3. 150 100 50 0 TB • 2001 2002 2003 what’s the problem? • we thought it was networking and CPU • … but, a survey of users added data … BIG TIME! • ... and this projection only included projects with secured funding

  4. in summary • while individual needs varied all required some mixture of • more CPU/memory • more data storage • faster access • researchers were used to buying their own CPU servers • so, our strategy was to complement this by providing a support infrastructure • Stage 1: we used £1.68 M of SRIF1 to: • create a fast, research network in parallel with edlan • install a research data storage facility

  5. SRIF AT Appleton Tower Royal Edinburgh Hospital Library Robson Building Old College Holyrood Western General Medical School Little France New College Pollock Halls BUSH RESNET Kings Buildings Sick Children’s Hospital EaStMan Router SRIF KB 2Mbit/s 100Mbit/s JANET BAR 1000Mbit/s The last mile: SRIF1

  6. … and data too • 155 TB SAN + 36 TB tape backup • available to all e-science researchers • total investment SRIF1 + project funds: £2.2M

  7. short of space • … but all the new facilities could not be fitted in the JCMB machine room • £4.2M from SRIF2 to refurbish a new research computing facility

  8. SRIF AT SRIF AT Appleton Tower Royal Edinburgh Hospital Library SRIF KB Robson Building Old College Holyrood Western General Medical School Little France New College Pollock Halls 10 Gb/s BUSH RESNET Kings Buildings Sick Children’s Hospital EaStMan Router SRIF KB ACF 2Mbit/s 100Mbit/s JANET BAR 10 Gb/s 1000Mbit/s The last mile … Phase 2

  9. SAN KB iSCSI SRIF/ SJ4 Fibrechannel 10 Gb/s NAS AT QCDOC BG/L HPCx the research SAN

  10. what facilities are available to me? • CPU • UoE HPC service (lomond) – 52-pe Sun E15000 • BlueGene/L (bluesky) – 2,000-pe IBM R&D machine • capability computing for the initiated • data • research SAN – 155TB (disk), 36TB (tape) Sun 6290 • networking • SRIF network • secure machine room space • … email me with your needs and we’ll see what we can do • other facilities by arrangement with project owners • BlueDwarf, ScotGrid,

  11. a free lunch? • the ACF is a strategic University facility • and hence open to all researchers • although a real capital asset, the recurrent support for • facilities management • maintenance, power, space charges … • and, perhaps, user support and applications porting/tuning • … has to come from project funds • what is it you want/need?

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