Computing Resources, An Overview Vinod Gupta Computing Committee Meeting 20061110

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Computing Resources, An OverviewVinod
GuptaComputing Committee Meeting2006-11-10
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Campus wide Computing Resources

• Windows - Administrative and Business
  Applications, commercial s/w- Managed centrally
  from Domain Controllers based on MS Active
  Directory.- About 100 Org Units (OU), DeSC is
  the largest with 3000 machines.- PHYSICS OU has
  3 sub-OUs Public, Personal, Research.
• Mac - Mainly Laptops, a few Desktops.- No
  servers, no central management.- With h/w
  migration to Intel h/w and Unix s/w, a larger
  set of Windows and Public Domain s/w port-
  Possibility of integration under Windows Domain-
  May become DeSC machines in future.
• Unix - New thrust to research computing, major
  push from Astro, Genomics, EQuad- Traditional
  mainframes and Unix systems giving way to large
  clusters Orangina Blue Gene (IBM PPC),
  Della (Dell/Intel), Hecate (SGI/Intel)- Largely
  reserved for a few research groups, rest shared
  by others for a fee
• Services- Network backbone- IMAP/SMTP/Exchange,
  Listserv for Mailing-Lists- TSM Backups- LAMP
  (LinuxApacheMySQLPHP) app dev- Multi-Media,
  Flash, Fixed Image app dev- Events Calendar-
  Hardware Support (Dell, Xerox, HP) _at_ 92/hour

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Departmental Computing Resources

• Feynman Cluster - 250 CPUs, 200 GB RAM and 20
  TB disk storage.- Runs RHEL4 linux.- PBSMAUI
  based batch management system- Web server hosts
  personalgroup sites exported from feynman
  http//physics.princeton.edu/it/cluster/
• 26 Public Desktops- 10x Linux workstations-
  8x dual G5 Macs- 8x Windows
• 800 hosts, sharp rise after HostPort became free
• A dozen network printershttp//physics.princeton.
  edu/it/printing.html
• Jadwin Hall now fully equipped with PUWIRELESS
  and PUVISITOR
• Large posters printing and lamination
• Mobile Video projection system
• http//physics.princeton.edu/it/

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Current Capacity

• 2 Head Nodes (Dual Xeon, 2 GB RAM) 2
  Compute Nodes, 2x Xeon, 2GB (Dept) 6 Compute
  Nodes, 2x AMD, 4GB (Page) 15 Compute Nodes, 2x
  Xeon, 4GB (Ravin) 50 Compute Nodes, 4x cores,
  2GB (Uros)1.2 TB Disk (Home, Group,
  Scratch)1.0 TB Disk MiniBOONE3.0 TB Disk
  BELLE8.5 TB Disk CMS6.0 TB Disk CMB/ACT

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Future Directions

• No significant changes foreseen for Business
  Computing. MSVista and Macs likely in 2008.
• CMS starts production in 2007, will need large
  data storage, bandwidth, Grid, complex software
  management. Fermilab will be primary data source
  for US CMS.
• ACT starts production will start very soon,
  Princeton will be primary data source for the
  collaboration.
• Jason Petta joining in Jan 2007, will need
  significant computing resources.
• Bob Austin is preparing a proposal for
  significant computing resources.
• PCTP computing needs not very clear at this
  moment
• Ray moved to students lab, process for
  replacement initiated. Neel getting stronger
  every year. Working to maximum of our capacity.

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GroupsShare resources (CPU Storage quota,
Environment, Software)Membership authorized by
group contact
GROUP GID CONTACT E-MAIL CONTACT
NAME users 500 vinod_at_princeton.edu Vinod
Gupta astpart 501 galbiati_at_princeton.edu
Cristiano Galbiati astphys 502
groth_at_princeton.edu Ed Groth atomic 503
romalis_at_princeton.edu Mike Romalis babar
504 jolsen_at_princeton.edu James Olsen belle
505 marlow_at_princeton.edu Dan
Marlow biophys 506 austin_at_princeton.edu
Bob Austin boone 507 meyers_at_princeton.edu
Peter Meyers cmb 508 page_at_princeton.edu
Lyman Page cmcomp 509 ravin_at_princeton.edu
Ravin Bhatt cms 510 cgtully_at_princeton.edu
Chris Tully cmtheory 511 haldane_at_princeton.edu
Duncan Haldane cosmos 512
useljak_at_princeton.edu Uros Seljak hetheory
513 klebanov_at_princeton.edu Igor
Klebanov mathphys 514 aizenman_at_princeton.edu
Mike Aizenman pascos 515 steinh_at_princeton.ed
u Paul Steinhardt pulsar 516
jtaylor_at_princeton.edu Joe Taylor staff 517
vinod_at_princeton.edu Vinod Gupta