Speakers
- Katherine Holcomb (kah3f - ITC Research Computing) - runs the 96 node
Aspen cluster and the 32 node Birch cluster. Will discuss the software and
support that ITC provides for these two clusters. Will present a Brown Bag
talk on 25-Sept-2003 on these clusters.
Summary of this talk for the LSP
conference.
- Tom Spraggins (tas - ITC Academic Computing Health Sciences) - runs a
42 node cluster that contains 21 dual CPU Intel/Linux machines and 21 Mac
OS X machines. Will talk about integraing the Linux and OS X machines into
one cluster. Will describe the gene and protein database search
application that runs on his cluster.
- Bryan Wright (bryan - Physics) - will talk about what Physics does
(PDF). He runs several general purpose Linux
clusters.
- Rich Gregory (rtg2t - SEAS) - runs an 18 node cluster with dual CPU
Linux machines and a 6 node (10 CPU's total) compute engine Linux cluster.
Administers two SGI supercomputers that have 8 and 16 CPU's and huge amounts
of shared RAM and a huge shared RAID.
- Usages
- Parallel computing
- Database server with web server frontend
- Web server
- File server
- High Availability server
- Installation
- Network - head node
Two ethernet cards used. One goes to the Internet, one goes to the
"inside".
- Network Medium
- 100 Mbit/sec Copper
- 1000 Mbit/sec Copper
- 1000 Mbit/sec Optical
- Myrinet - Full-duplex 2+2 Gigabit/sec
- NIS - logon anywhere on the cluster. Authenticate in one place.
- NFS - makes a disk look like it mounted everywhere.
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