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NCSA RP Update: May 2010. John Towns Director, Persistent Infrastructure jtowns@ncsa.illinois.edu. In Brief… . Operationally continuing along as normal Retired Mercury March 31, 2010 access to files for 1 month to allow moving data 6 years of operation! Jan 2004 to Jan 2010
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NCSA RP Update:May 2010 John Towns Director, Persistent Infrastructure jtowns@ncsa.illinois.edu
In Brief… • Operationally continuing along as normal • Retired Mercury March 31, 2010 • access to files for 1 month to allow moving data • 6 years of operation! • Jan 2004 to Jan 2010 • the last of the original DTF resources that started TeraGrid • Of note: Ember to arrive over next several months Imaginations unbound
The Newest Addition: Ember • In summary: SGI Altix UV 1000 • 16.4 TF peak • 1536 Nehalem-EX cores • 8 TB memory • 300+ TB storage • Altix UV 10 front-end system • 24 cores • 4 x 6-core Nehalem-EX • 128 GB memory • Consists of four 4 SMPs • each SMP • 32 compute blades • 384 cores • 2 TB memory • each compute blade • dual Nehalem-EX (6 core) processors • 64 GB memory • 5.33 GB/core • NUMALink 5 • paired node 2D torus Imaginations unbound
Dual Nehalem-EX processors Intel X7542 (Beckton) 6 cores/socket 18 MB cache 2.67 GHz QPI @ 5.86GT/s (23.2GB/s) 64 GB memory 16 x 4GB memory modules 34.1 GB/s per socket 5.68 GB/s per core Boxboro IOH I/O Riser QPI QPI Nehalem-EX Nehalem-EX BoxboroIOH QPI UV HUB (8) DDR3 RDIMMs & (4) Millbrook Memory Buffers per socket QPI QPI RLDRAM (Snoop Acceleration) (2) Directory FB-DIMMs (4) NUMAlink 5 Ember Compute Blade • UV Hub • acts as node controller • support for globally addressable memory • MPI Offload Engine • NUMALink 5 • 15 GB/s bi-directional • ~1µs latency
Ember Environment • Storage • 300+ TB filesystem; 8+ GB/s • 24 SGI TP9500 disk systems • 146 GB Fiberchannel drives NOTE: currently negotiating a more favorable storage sub-system • Network connectivity • 10 x 10GigE connections to NCSA’s core network • 2 bonded per machine • three OC-192 circuits to Chicago (TeraGrid) • 10 GigE links to NLR PacketNet and the MREN GigaPOP • access to Internet2 and other research and education networks • Archive: 5 PB capacity • EMC/Legato DiskXtender (UniTree) • distributed across two SGI Altix 4700 servers • two ADIC S10K libraries • 10 x 10GigE connections to NCSA’s core network Imaginations unbound
Deployment Schedule • Purchase approvals complete: March 10, 2010 • NSF funding secured • Univ of Illinois Board of Trustees Approval • March 10, 2010 meeting • Purchase Order issued: March 26, 2010 • Login node (UV 10) ship: May 14, 2010 • system build, OS, SGI environment • NCSA environment, user tools • internal testing by systems staff and user/applications support staff • First 384 core UV 1000 SMPs: mid July 2010 • applications testing and benchmarking by staff • early Friendly User access • Three additional 384 core UV SMPs: early August 2010 • further applications testing and benchmarking • full Friendly User access period • Full production: no later than Oct 1, 2010 Imaginations unbound