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Millennium Executive Committee Meeting

Millennium Executive Committee Meeting. David E. Culler Computer Science Division culler@cs.berkeley.edu http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~culler. MM Proposed Cluster of Clusters. Business. SIMS. BMRC. Chemistry. C.S. E.E. Gigabit Ethernet. Astro. NERSC. M.E. Physics. N.E. Math. IEOR.

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Millennium Executive Committee Meeting

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  1. Millennium Executive Committee Meeting David E. Culler Computer Science Division culler@cs.berkeley.edu http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~culler

  2. MM Proposed Cluster of Clusters Business SIMS BMRC Chemistry C.S. E.E. Gigabit Ethernet Astro NERSC M.E. Physics N.E. Math IEOR Transport Economy C. E. MSME Millennium

  3. Committments • Intel provides 6 M$ in equipment • Sun provides all Solaris x86 software • Microsoft provides all NT software • Campus provides staff to support the core infrastructure, networking • CS will try to raise funds for the network and campus cluster infra. • Departments provide 1/2 of system admin for own side and 20 K$ for group cluster • racks, network, software, ... Millennium

  4. Where are we? • Hardware deployment • Software availability • Cluster Environment • Grants • Networking Millennium

  5. Current Environment • All projects have servers and several desktops • last few in current shipment • millennium.berkeley.edu domain established • solaris shared servers with 60GB disks • www.millennium.berkeley.edu, MM.millennium.berkeley.edu • imap, ... • solaris/x86 sww served from CS servers • NT domain server with 60 GB disks • MMNT.millennium.berkeley.edu • exchange, file, ... • First cluster ready for use • NSF SimMillennium grant to cover network • Two of three Millennium staff hired Millennium

  6. Hardware Deployment Millennium

  7. Basic Software Tools • Standard Unix Tools /usr/sww/bin • 484 packages • GNU Tools • gcc, g++ (version 2.8.1), gdb, g... • Sun ProWorks • workshop “development environment” • C, C++, F77 • Debugger • Sun Performance Library /usr/sww/lib • Sun Math Library Millennium

  8. Cluster Developments • 4 x 4 PentiumPro Cluster ready • Full NOW environment • Glunix, MPI, Active Messages, Split-C • titanium protoype • Transfering to Cory to debug deployment • CS / Civil Eng. Consortium has been shaking it out • petc graph partitioner, finite element classes, … • ScaLapack (???) • Have parts for three 8x2 Pentium II clusters • AstroPhysics • Soda Solaris x86 to be shipped out • Soda NT cluster Millennium

  9. Grants • NSF CISE Research Infrastructure grant • cluster networking • inter-cluster networking (campus mgmt) • computational economy staff support • visualization • devoted to CS research with disciplinary applns • Bay Networks 70% discount up to 5 M$ • gigabit networks • IBM SUR disk towers • IBM CS extension to PDA access • NSF Science and Tech. Centers in process • … any more??? Millennium

  10. Networking • Campus using Millennium to drive planning • CNS is working closely with us. • Testing gigabit ethernet • Campbell, Evans, Davis moving forward • CS will be able to cover the intracluster network (Myrinet) and gigabit switch in the group clusters • frees up some of the committed resources Millennium

  11. Going forward • Roll out group clusters over next few quarters • Roll out gigabit interconnect • Build up the cluster programming tools • Intel Merced pushed out • campus cluster delayed • utilize NOW as an alternative • combine with NPACI infrastructure • Exploring cluster technology • VIA • Synfinity, ServerNet, Gigabit Ethernet • Exploring NT Millennium

  12. Millennium

  13. Holes (in my view) • Sense of community • Fertile exchange and collaboration • Definition of Computational Science Challenges • Clear commitment to programming models • Orderly, informed software environment • Clear information exchange • who do you call • Well organized mailing list • Low overhead management, progress reports, … • Really exciting web site Millennium

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