Condor@Micron

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Condor_at_Micron

• May 2003

Brooklin J. Gore Senior Fellow
?2003 Micron Technology, Inc. All rights
reserved. Information is subject to change
without notice.
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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron Motivations
You come to understand that the purpose of a
machine is ultimately not to run programs, but to
solve problems. -- Monty Denneau
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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron Motivations

• The following initiatives were presented to the
  officers
• New demand management process
• Payback analysis
• Roadmap emphasis
• Engineering pools
• Officer participation visibility
• Identify and eliminate legacy environments
• Implement storage server consolidation
• Implement grid computing
• Continue with budget plan execution
• These are all critical to meeting our cost
  reduction plans.

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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron Goals

• Aligned with Corporate and IT Goals
• Lower costs, higher equipment utilization
• Better data, faster, cheaper
• Specific goals (by December, 2003)
• Grow to 1000 machines (processors)
• Global pools idle lt 20
• At least one production Windows application
• Match resource growth w/application deployment
• Educate developers

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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron Pools
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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron Sample
Applications

• Advanced Process Control (APC)
• Defect Analysis (ESDA)
• Engineering Analysis
• Global Planning Scheduling (GPSS)
• Integrated Data Analysis (IDAS)
• Network Management
• Statistical Process Control Charts

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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron HPC Roadmap
CPU Aquifer
Applications / Procs
Global Grid
2001 2002 2003 2004
2005 2006 2007
RD Early adoption Mainstream adoption
Condor opportunistic Condor clusters Mosix/Parall
el clusters Supercomputer-class clusters
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2003 Condor WorkshopCondor_at_Micron Needs

• All your great work
• User friendly features
• Windows screensaver (Birdwatcher)
• Industry Users Group

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