CSG - Research Computing
Redux
John Holt, Alan Wolf
University of Wisconsin - Madison
What we have:
• Infrastructure
• Projects and Facilities
• Support
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
Abilene & NLR
Abilene is the Internet2 network
Abilene, NLR & NTNC
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 QuickTime™ and a
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• 100 end hosts
• Other networking gear
• create arbitrary configurations
of systems
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
Condor in CS
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CS Condor pool usage
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 QuickTime™ and a
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– Confederation of DoIT,
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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
Support (continued)
• Research storage support
• Local > Shared > Archival
• DSpace (or something like it)
– Provide storage for collected final works
• Datasets, research reports, etc.
– Make these available to all researchers and
teachers