From zero to grid end point in 2 hours

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The Building of RockStar

• From zero to grid end point in 2 hours
• Anyone can now build a grid

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Rocks 3.1 (dec03)
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Rocks Registry(31 TFlops world-wide)
Top500 Nov03
Top500 June03
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Leaving Baltimore (SC02)

• Lets build a Top500 machine ...
• ... from the ground up ...
• ... in two hours ...
• ... on the show floor in Phoenix next year ...
• ... Rocks is dead if we fail ...
• Lets go!

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Running Applications

• Performed quantum mechanical calculations on
  43-atom molecules
• Data used for third-phase cancer research trial
• Results to be included in an upcoming journal
  article
• Kim B. and Jerry G. were drafted for this

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RockStar is Donated

• 129 Sun Fire V60x servers
• 1 Frontend
• 128 Compute Nodes
• Gigabit Ethernet Interconnect
• 201 on Nov03 Top500
• Pack up and ship to AZ

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Rebuilt at SC03

• Focus of Suns site the following day
• Online for several days

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Larry Smarrs HPCwire Interview

• HPCwire What was the most impressive thing
  youve seen at SC2003?
• Smarr I think, without question, the most
  impressive thing Ive seen was Phil Papadopoulos
  demo with Sun Microsystems.

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Thanks
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Building RockStar