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Presentation for the Mississippi Supercomputer User Advisory Group (MSUAG) February 23, 2007 Starkville, MS. Agenda. MCSR News Supercomputers Software MyMCSR Research Education User Feedback/Discussion. MCSR News: Staffing. Kathy Gates, Ph.D. (Chief Information Officer, UM).
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Presentation for the Mississippi Supercomputer User Advisory Group (MSUAG)February 23, 2007Starkville, MS MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Agenda MCSR News Supercomputers Software MyMCSR Research Education User Feedback/Discussion MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: Staffing Kathy Gates, Ph.D. (Chief Information Officer, UM) Robin Miller (Director, Tech Services, UM) David Roach (Director, MCSR) Systems Group Suzette Henry (Manager) Guangyan Li Hitesh Girdhani Ken Rossetti Ron Kitchens Bill Roland Student Employees Research Support Jason Hale (Manager) Taner Pirim, Ph.D. Sam Testa Sam Gordji, Ph.D. Grad. Assistants & Student Workers Indika Jayasinghe Ertan Karakas Lukman Bojuwon Derrick Watson MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: FY 2007 Budget MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: Budget by Year MCSR FY2007 budget: $816,643.00. MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Funding $27 million thus far in FY2007. MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Return on Investment There were over $47 in active research grants for every $1 spent on MCSR in FY2006 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: New Logo Cyanogen Molecule 2 – 4 – 8 Theme: for Parallel Processing 2 nodes of each color 4 nodes total (4 Major Research IHLs) 8 lines (8 Total IHL’s Served)Graph Theory (Nodes and Edges) Cray-like Font on MCSR Found in the atmospheresof the moons of Saturn MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Redwood Upgrade Partially funded by infrastructure $$ from EPSCoR-related NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement Program. Collaborative proposal with Dr. Greg Tschumper in the UM Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. Purchased from James River Technical, Inc. Installed by SGI engineers from Hunstsville & Vicksburg MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Redwood 64x 900 MHz CPUs2004 + 128 1.3 GHz CPUsMarch 2005 = 192x CPUs2005 + 32 1.3 GHz CPUs June 2006 = 224x CPUs 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Redwood 1st PBS Instance 2nd PBS Instance 56900 MHz CPUs56 GB Mem 1561.3 GHz CPUs156 GB Mem CPU Set 8 900 MHz CPUs 8 GB 3rd PBS Instance 4 1.3 GHz CPUs 4 GB qsub qstat qdel fqstat qsub qstat2 qdel2 fqstat2 for interactive sessions for testing MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Mimosa Removed: 12 Nodes • Compaq 500MHz P3 • 500 MB Memory • Original nodes Replaced: Gateway • old: Compaq 500MHz P3 • new: Dell dual G5 3.6 GHz • Added: 22 Compute Nodes • Dell 2.8GHz GX520 Pentium D • Total: 253 Nodes • 243 Compute, 9 I/O, 1 Gateway • Migrated to SUSE • SUSE Linux 9.3, from RedHat MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Shared Memory CPU Hours Generated 1,776,861 CPU hours were generated on the SGI Origin and Altix Supercomputers for MCSR researchers in FY2006 FY2007 number is projected MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Mimosa CPU Hours Generated FY2007 number is projected 2,800,268 CPU hours were generated on Mimosa Cluster for MCSR researchers in FY2006 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Gaussian upgraded 03 D Amber upgraded to 9 ABAQUS 6.5 CPMD3.92 Accelrys Materials Studio installed Software: Upgrades & Installations MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MyMCSR: My Current Jobs MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MyMCSR: My Finished Jobs MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MyMCSR: My Students Job History MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MyMCSR: My Students Info MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MyMCSR: My Disk Usage MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Over 88% Gaussian Jobs MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Parellel Efficiency Improving MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Account Distribution We currently support over 987 research accounts on all MCSR systems. MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Job Distribution by IHL MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: MCSR Research Day in Fall?Supercomputing Day? Presentations by MCSR Researchers Workshops on HPC topics by Vendors, Consultants, Researchers Tours of Supercomputing Data Center Researcher photos with Supercomputers 20 Year Anniversary of MCSR MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Education: Instructional Accounts Over 72courses supported since 2000 at 6 IHLs C++, Fortran, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, MySQL, OpenMP, MPI, IMSL, HTML,Unix, Linux, Web (JavaScript at DSU) http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.php?pagename=class.inc MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Education: On-Site Talks & Workshops Recent Offerings Topics of Interest at Your Campus? Lab Experiences? Intro to other topics?CIS 112 Survey at MVSU?AITP at DSU ACM at UM Grad School Fairs/Orientation? Engineering Week http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.php?pagename=seminars.inc MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Education: MASMCSR Sponsored Programming Contest? • Launch Date in Sept 07? Deadline Nov 07?Multiple Categories? • Specific HPC Problem? (Serial? Parallel?) • Math (Mathematica? IMSL?) programming problem? • Web problem? (Java or Javascript?)- (Large?) Dataset Visualization?- Statistical Pgmg? (SPSS, SAS) • MAS posters or talks in 08.Prizes (What kind? Who Pays?)Solicit support from key depts? • Judging, choosing problems, encouraging students MSUAG Meeting, Starkville