csg - research computing redux john holt, alan wolf university of wisconsin - madison
TRANSCRIPT
Infrastructure• 21st Century Network
– 10 Gb backbone– Fully online (05-06)
• IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)
• Northern Tier Network Consortium– Fiber connections for the northern states– Wisconsin to Washington– Wisconsin’s connection live by Fall
Projects and Facilities
• Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory
• Condor
• Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW)
• Genome Center Supercomputer facility
• Others– Sampling of other projects
Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory
• http://wail.cs.wisc.edu/
• 50 IP routers and switches
• 100 end hosts
• Other networking gear
• create arbitrary configurationsof systems
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Condor• Hunting for wasted computing resoruces• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/• Engineering 587 (mixed)• CS approximately 750 (dedicated)
– Plus most desktops in the department
• Untapped pools– Infolabs and administrative machines– Difficulty with software licenses– Privacy and security
GLOW
• Another Condor cluster
• 330 cpus
• (mostly) Isolated and restricted to contributing PIs
• Mostly genomics research
Genome Center of Wisconsin
• Donated hardware (36 cpu e10000)
• V880 (8 cpu)
• Aging, but useful for large memory model applications not suitable for clusters
• Local mirror of NCBI genomic databases
• Subscription model
Others
• Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
– http://loci.wisc.edu/ – http://openmicroscopy.org
• Social Science Computer Cooperative– Small Condor and statistical analysis– http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/
• Space Science and Engineering Center– http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/
• Sustainability and Global Environment– http://www.sage.wisc.edu/
Others, continued
• Digital Library Projects– Provide access to rare and fragile resources
for research– http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/index.html
• High Energy Physics - GLOW– http://www.hep.wisc.edu/computing
• Medical Physics - GLOW– http://www.medphysics.wisc.edu/cluster
Support
• Biology New Media Center– Research and teaching– Confederation of DoIT,
CBE, and Biotech Center– Centrally supported– Gigabit connectivity to the desktops– Research and learning technology consulting
• 3D molecular modeling, biosequence analysis and phylogenetic analysis consulting
• Research communication• Access to shared specialized resources
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.