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February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Presentation for the Mississippi Supercomputer User
Advisory Group (MSUAG)
February 23, 2007Starkville, MS
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News
Supercomputers
Software
MyMCSR
Research
Education
User Feedback/Discussion
Agenda
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: Staffing
Systems Group
Suzette Henry (Manager)
Guangyan Li
Hitesh Girdhani
Ken Rossetti
Ron Kitchens
Bill Roland
Student Employees
Research Support
Jason Hale (Manager)
Taner Pirim, Ph.D.
Sam Testa
Sam Gordji, Ph.D.
Grad. Assistants & Student Workers
Indika Jayasinghe
Ertan Karakas
Lukman Bojuwon
Derrick Watson
David Roach (Director, MCSR)
Robin Miller (Director, Tech Services, UM)
Kathy Gates, Ph.D. (Chief Information Officer, UM)
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: FY 2007 Budget
MCSR Budget Categories, FY 2007Total = $818,643
Salaries, Wages, and Fringes, $592,411,
73%
Commodities, $10,200, 1%
Equipment, $10,000, 1%
Travel, $25,000, 3%
Transfers to PPD for Elec., $90,251, 11%
Contractual Services, $90,781, 11%
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: Budget by Year
MCSR Fiscal Year Budget
$0
$500,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
$2,500,000
FY1999
FY2000
FY2001
FY2002
FY2003
FY2004
FY2005
FY2006
FY2007
MCSR FY2007 budget: $816,643.00.
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
$27 million thus far in FY2007.
Research: FundingReported Research Funds
$0$5,000,000
$10,000,000$15,000,000$20,000,000$25,000,000$30,000,000$35,000,000$40,000,000$45,000,000$50,000,000
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
There were over $47 in active research grants for every $1 spent on MCSR in FY2006
Research: Return on Investment
Return on Investment(Supported Research / MCSR Budget)
$0.00
$10.00
$20.00
$30.00
$40.00
$50.00
$60.00
FY1999
FY2000
FY2001
FY2002
FY2003
FY2004
FY2005
FY2006
FY2007
*
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
MCSR News: New Logo
2 – 4 – 8 Theme: for Parallel Processing2 nodes of each color4 nodes total (4 Major Research IHLs) 8 lines (8 Total IHL’s Served)Graph Theory (Nodes and Edges)Cray-like Font on MCSR
Cyanogen Molecule
Found in the atmospheresof the moons of Saturn
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Redwood Upgrade
Partially funded by infrastructure $$ from EPSCoR-related NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement Program.
Collaborative proposal with Dr. Greg Tschumper in the UM Chemistry and Biochemistry Department.
Purchased from James River Technical, Inc.
Installed by SGI engineers from Hunstsville & Vicksburg
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Redwood 64x 900 MHz CPUs
2004
+ 128 1.3 GHz CPUsMarch 2005
= 192x CPUs 2005
+ 32 1.3 GHz CPUs June 2006
= 224x CPUs 2007
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Supercomputers: Redwood
56 900 MHz CPUs
56 GB Mem
156 1.3 GHz CPUs156 GB Mem
8 900 MHz CPUs
8 GB
1st PBS Instance 2nd PBS Instance
for interactive sessions
qsubqstat2qdel2fqstat2
qsubqstatqdelfqstat
4 1.3 GHz CPUs
4 GB
3rd PBS Instance
for testing
CPU Set
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Removed: 12 Nodes- Compaq 500MHz P3
- 500 MB Memory
- Original nodes
Replaced: Gateway- old: Compaq 500MHz P3
- new: Dell dual G5 3.6 GHz
Added: 22 Compute Nodes- Dell 2.8GHz GX520 Pentium D
Supercomputers: Mimosa
Total: 253 Nodes- 243 Compute, 9 I/O, 1 Gateway
Migrated to SUSE- SUSE Linux 9.3, from RedHat
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
1,776,861 CPU hours were generated on the SGI Origin and Altix Supercomputers
for MCSR researchers in FY2006
FY2007 number is projected
Supercomputers: Shared Memory CPU Hours Generated
Central Processor Hours Generated, Sweetgum and Redwood
0200,000400,000600,000800,000
1,000,0001,200,0001,400,0001,600,0001,800,0002,000,000
FY1999
FY2000
FY2001
FY2002
FY2003
FY2004
FY2005
FY2006
FY2007
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
2,800,268 CPU hours were generated on Mimosa Cluster for MCSR researchers in FY2006
FY2007 number is projected
Supercomputers: Mimosa CPU Hours Generated
CPU Hours Genarated - Linux Cluster
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
FY2002
FY2003
FY2004
FY2005
FY2006
FY2007
*
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Software: Upgrades & Installations
• Gaussian upgraded 03 D• Amber upgraded to 9• ABAQUS 6.5• CPMD 3.92 • Accelrys Materials Studio installed
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Over 88% Gaussian Jobs
Percentage of MCSR Jobs Using g03sub (Gaussian)
# g03sub PBS jobs, 26,691, 88%
# other jobs, 3,724, 12%
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Parellel Efficiency Improving
Average Efficiency of Parallel G03 Calculationson Scalar MCSR Systems (Redwood, Sweetgum)
56%
56%
57%
57%
58%
58%
59%
59%
60%
60%
61%
2005 2006 2007
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Account Distribution
MCSR Research Account Distribution, February 2007
UMS41%
JSU47%
Other3%
USM4%
MSU5% USM
MSU
UMS
JSU
Other
We currently support over 987 research accounts on all MCSR systems.
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: Job Distribution by IHL
PBS Jobs by IHL (Jan - Dec 2006)
JSU, 56571, 72%
MSU, 4443, 6%
UM, 17468, 22%
OTH, 185, 0%USM, 196, 0%
JSU
MSU
UM
USM
OTH
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Research: MCSR Research Day in Fall?
Supercomputing Day?
Presentations by MCSR ResearchersWorkshops on HPC topics
by Vendors, Consultants, ResearchersTours of Supercomputing Data CenterResearcher photos with Supercomputers20 Year Anniversary of MCSR
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Education: Instructional Accounts
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.php?pagename=class.inc
Over 72 courses supported since 2000at 6 IHLs
C++, Fortran, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, MySQL, OpenMP, MPI, IMSL, HTML,Unix, Linux, Web (JavaScript at DSU)
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Education: On-Site Talks & Workshops
Recent OfferingsTopics of Interest at Your Campus? Lab Experiences? Intro to other topics?
CIS 112 Survey at MVSU?AITP at DSU ACM at UM
Grad School Fairs/Orientation?Engineering Week
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.php?pagename=seminars.inc
February 23, 2007 MSUAG Meeting, Starkville
Education: MAS MCSR Sponsored Programming Contest?
Launch Date in Sept 07? Deadline Nov 07?Multiple Categories?- Specific HPC Problem? (Serial? Parallel?)- Math (Mathematica? IMSL?) programming problem?- Web problem? (Java or Javascript?)- (Large?) Dataset Visualization?- Statistical Pgmg? (SPSS, SAS)-MAS posters or talks in 08.Prizes (What kind? Who Pays?)Solicit support from key depts?
-Judging, choosing problems, encouraging students