NPACKage User Support

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NPACKage User Support

• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
• Associate Director, Scientific Computing
• wilkinsn_at_sdsc.edu
• 3/20/03

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User Services Activities

• Deployment
• Support
• Applications Experience
• Documentation

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Deployment

• Test environment
• b80n14 and b80n15 (two AIX 5.l nodes at SDSC)
• rocks09.sdsc.edu (four node Rocks RH 7.3 cluster
  at SDSC)
• spe232 - spe237 (six AIX 4.3.3 nodes at Michigan)
• vina (an IA64 machine at Michigan)
• pompone.cs.ucsb.edu ( Linux box at UCSB, used to
  keep the Pacman cache for NPACKAGE)
• beluga.cs.ucsb.edu ( Linux box at UCSB, CVS
  repository for NPACKAGE)
• IA64 node at SDSC
• P4 system (OS TBD)
• sarek.isi.edu, Solaris

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Deployment

• NPACI Production Resource sites
• 1152 processor IBM power3, SDSC
• 224 processor IBM power4, U Texas
• 176 processor IBM power2, U Michigan
• 28 processor IBM power3, U Michigan
• 256 processor AMD athlon, U Michigan
• 2x32 Processor IA64 (HP and IBM), Caltech
• builds-npackage_at_npaci.edu

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Support

• 1 FTE at SDSC
• Experience using all NPACKage pieces through work
  with NPACI alpha projects
• Build off existing NPACI support infrastructure
• 5am 5pm support via consult_at_npaci.edu,
  http//www.npaci.edu/Consulting
• Queries automatically logged in remedy ticketing
  system
• Queries can be categorized as NPACKage
• Web or client access to ticketing system for
  NPACKage developers if needed

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Applications Experience

• Integration into NPACI Alpha projects
• Mcell (APST, GridSolve, Globus)
• Protein Folding (NMI Globus, NMI Condor-G,
  GridPort, MyProxy, SRB)
• Bioinformatics Infrastructure (SRB)
• Scalable Visualization (SRB, DataCutter)
• Telescience (Globus, SRB)
• Multicomponent Models (SRB, DataCutter)
• Adaptive Computations in Biological Systems
  (Titanium, KeLP)

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Documentation

• Installation procedures documented by experienced
  SDSC technical writer, with input from developers
• Will be available at http//www.npaci.edu/Applicat
  ions
• Distribution through NPACKage download

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Questions?

• wilkinsn_at_sdsc.edu