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The First 16 Years of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The First 16 Years of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Commit /. DAS. S hared distributed infrastructure for experimental computer science research Small, interactive, controlled, distributed computer science experiments

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The First 16 Years of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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  1. The First 16 Years of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer Henri BalVrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam Commit/

  2. DAS • Shared distributed infrastructure for experimental computer science research • Small, interactive, controlled, distributed computer science experiments • Hard to do on production systems DAS-2 DAS-1 DAS-3 DAS-4

  3. DAS history • Pre-DAS: Cluster computing • DAS-1: Wide-area computing (1997) • DAS-2: Grids & P2P computing (2002) • DAS-3: e-Science & optical Grids (2007) • DAS-4: Clouds, diversity & green IT (2011)

  4. Pre-history • Andy Tanenbaum already built cluster in 1984 • Pronet token ring network, 8086 CPUs • Amoeba processor pool • (no pictures available)

  5. DAS-1 (1997-2002)A homogeneous wide-area system 200 MHz Pentium Pro 128 MB memory 200 nodes Myrinet interconnect Built by Parsytec VU Amsterdam 6 Mb/s ATM Leiden Delft • [ACM SIGOPS 2000] (paper with 50 authors)

  6. DAS-4 (2011) Testbed for clouds, diversity & Green IT UvA / MultimediaN Dual quad-core Xeon24-48 GB memory Infiniband Various accelerators (GPUs)Bright Cluster Manager Built by ClusterVision VU SURFnet ASTRON 10 Gb/s lambdas TU Delft Leiden

  7. DAS research • Many large research projects used DAS: • VL-e, MultimediaN, Gigaport, LOFAR, COMMIT • Many EU projects • Numerous NWO/STW projects • About 100 Ph.D. theses used DAS • Collaboration SURFnet on DAS-3 & DAS-4 • SURFnet provides dedicated 10 Gb/s light paths Commit/

  8. DAS enables award-winning research • IEEE SCALE challenge 2008 & 2010 • Several TRECVID challenges • 2 NWO VENI’s, 1 VIDI • EYR3 Sustainability Prize • Netherlands Prize for ICT Research 2012

  9. Organization Support/operation: ClusterVision Bright Computing TUD/GIS Stratix ASCI office DAS grandfathers: Andy Tanenbaum Bob Hertzberger Henk Sips DAS Steering Group: Henri Bal Dick Epema Cees de Laat CeesSnoek Frank Seinstra John Romein • Harry Wijshoff System management: KeesVerstoep et al. Funding:

  10. Speakers • Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida) • Erik Huizer (SURFnet) • AlexandruIosup (TU Delft) • CeesSnoek (University of Amsterdam) • John Romein (ASTRON) • Clemens Grelck (University of Amsterdam) • Ana Varbanescu (TU Delft) • Frank Seinstra (Netherlands eScience Center) • Jacopo Urbani (VU) • WojtekKowalczyk (Leiden University)

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