LBNL/NERSC Site Report

Cary Whitney

NERSC

clwhitney@lbl.gov

Outline

● Changes at NERSC● What's new at PDSF● Computational Systems Group (CSG)● Advanced Systems Group (ASG)● Mass Storage● Future Technologies Group (FTG)● Networking/Security● Grid

LBNL/NERSC

LBNL/NERSC

NERSC

● Oakland building expansion (of sorts)

● Finishing existing floor● Widening loading dock to

create a parking structure● Building a new building

next door. (Not NERSC funded.)

PDSF

● Purchased a Zambeel system to use as /home and /spool

● Added 60 Dual Athlons to the cluster

● Added 15 - - 1 TB disk vaults● Demo of Maximum-

Throughput system in works● Demo of AMD Hammer in

works

CSG

● We say good by to the Crays. The T3E and SV1 were decommissioned on Oct 1st.

CSG

● Seaborg upgraded to AIX 5.1

● Announcement of Blue Planet

– Http://www.nersc.gov/news/blueplanet.html

ASG

● Batch schedulers testing

– Between LSF 5.1, OpenPBS/Maui, SGE, MauiME● Unlimited Scale SSI testing

– Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)● GUPFS

– Max-T, Ibrix, GFS, Yotta Yotta, 3Par Data– EMC, Dot Hill, Qlogic– PCI-X– Rei Lee (rclee@lbl.gov)

Mass Storage

● Added 20TB of cache for HPSS● Moving to 200GB tapes● Starting evaluation of Linux Movers● Beta for HPSS 5.1 DMAPI● Linux XFS/DMAPI

FTG

● IB technologies● Linux checkpoint/restart

Network/Security

● iperf.nersc.gov● Tested/beta 10GE● HIPPI/FIDDI removal from center● Planning stages for OC48 upgrade● SC2002 work

– Eli Dart (dart@nersc.gov)

Grid

● Getting grid services running on Seaborg● NERSC wide grid ldap server● Enabling Bro to recognize gsiftp and cactus sessions, or

simple making Bro grid aware

– Steve Chan (SYChan@lbl.gov)