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SGE 6.2u3
* Sun Grid 6.2 Engine Update 3 is now an ideal building block for private clouds
* Service Domain Manager (SDM) Cloud Adapter provides an interface to manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Machine Images (AMI). They support cloud-only and hybrid (local+cloud) Sun Grid Engine environments.
* Initial Power Saving uses SDM (Service Domain Manager) to recommend powering off hosts in the cloud when demand is low. For the initial stage, the powering off is optional, not automatic , and creates a standby pool.
* A new module SGE Inspect (Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 Inspect) provides a graphical monitoring interface for Sun Grid Engine clusters and Service Domain Manager instances, all in a single window.
* Graphical Installer makes it much easier to install the Sun Grid Engine software and simplifies initial cluster or cloud setup with easy-to-navigate displays.
* Exclusive Host Scheduling The cluster can be configured to allow jobs to request exclusive use of various components of a given execution host, An exclusive job will only be scheduled on execution hosts that have no jobs currently running. For a parallel job running on multiple machines, this rule applies for the slave tasks of the job as well.
* Job Submission Verifier (JSV) is an automatic filter for the system administrator to control, enforce and adjust jobs submissions. The basic idea is that on both the client side and the server side, the administrator has the ability to configure scripts that can read through job submission options and accept, reject, or modify the job submission accordingly.
* Scales up to 63,000 core CPUs
System Requirements
Operating Systems Execution Hosts
* OpenSolaris (all versions)
* Solaris 10, 9, and 8 Operating Systems {SPARC Platform}
* Solaris 10 and 9 Operating Systems (x86 Platform Edition)
* Solaris 10 Operating System (x64 Platform Edition)
* Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), x86 platform
* Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), PPC platform
* Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), x86 platform
* Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.00 or higher (including HP-UX on IA64)
* IBM AIX 5.1, 5.3
* Linux x86, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.21
* Linux x64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.22
* Linux IA64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.21
* Microsoft Windows Server 20033, (4)
* Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later[3, 4]
* Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 3 or later
* Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
Operating Systems Master Hosts
* Solaris (see details under execution hosts)
* Linux (x86 and x64, see details under execution hosts)
Master Host minimum hardware configuration
* 50 MB for each binary platform
* 80 MB of free memory minimum
* 100 MB of free disk space minimum
Execution Host minimum hardware configuration
* 50 MB for each binary platform
* 20 MB of free memory minimum
* 50 MB of free disk space minimum
Database Server
* 50 MB for each binary platform
* Minimum 200MB to 750MB of free memory
* 10 GB of free disk space minimum
Sun Web Console
* 50 MB for each binary platform
* 200 MB of free memory minimum
* 250 MB of free disk space minimum
Databases Supported for ARCo (see note 5)
* PostgresSQL 8.0 through 8.3
* MySQL(TM) 5.0
* Oracle 9i or 10g
Operating Platforms Supported for ARCo
* Solaris 10, 9 and 8 OS (SPARC Platform Edition)
* Solaris 10, 9 and 8 OS (x86 Platform Edition)
* Linux RPM Distribution
Service Domain Manager (SDM) Platforms Supported
* OpenSolaris
* Solaris 10, 9, and 8 Operating Systems (SPARC Platform Edition)
* Solaris 10 and 9 Operating Systems (x86 Platform Edition)
* Solaris 10 Operating System (x64 Platform Edition)
* Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), x86 platform
* Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), x86 platform
* Linux x86, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2
* Linux x64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2
Supported Sun Java Web Console version 3.0.x web browsers
* Netscape 6.2 and above
* Mozilla 1.4 and above
* Internet Explorer 5.5 and above
* Firefox 1.0 and above
SDM Required Software
* Sun Grid Engine 6.2
* Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
Posted at 04:03PM Jun 26, 2009 by hstsao in HPTC | Comments[0]
Sun Studio 12 U1
The latest production release includes improved binary application performance, full OpenMP 3.0 support, profiling of distributed MPI applications, unified application and system profiling using Solaris DTrace technology (DLight), a new standalone graphical debugger (dbxTool) and much more
C/C++/Fortran 95 Compilers
The Sun C, C++, and Fortran compilers include advanced features for developing applications on Sun Solaris SPARC and x86/x64 platforms. They utilize a common optimizing backend code generator, and accept standard C, C++, and Fortran with extensions.
The Sun Studio Performance Tools
The Sun Studio performance tools are designed to help answer questions about application performance. This article discusses the kinds of performance questions that users typically ask.
Debugging
Successful program debugging is more an art than a science. dbx is an interactive, source-level, post-mortem and real-time command-line debugging tool plus much more.
Performance Analyzer
The Sun Studio Performance Analyzer can help you assess the performance of your code, identify potential performance problems, and locate the part of the code where the problems occur. The Performance Analyzer can be used from the command line or from a graphical user interface.
Multithreaded (Parallel) Computing
Two critical forces are shaping the direction of software development. One is the deep adoption of parallel computing. The other is the move toward service-oriented architecture. But how prepared are the software developers and tool vendors for the challenge of working in parallel computing environments?
Performance Tuning and Optimization
Sun Studio C, C++, and Fortran compilers offer a rich set of compile-time options for specifying target hardware and advanced optimization techniques. But knowing which options to pick for a given application can be tricky.
Numerical Computation
The floating-point environment on Sun SPARC and x86/x64 platforms enables you to develop robust, high-performance, portable numerical applications. The floating-point environment can also help investigate unusual behavior of numerical programs written by others.
Sun Studio on Linux
The latest production release of Sun Studio 12 software has an IDE, performance analyzer, debugger, and better support for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). And, with the release of Sun Studio 12, Linux developers can now take advantage of Sun's world-class compilers and tools on the Linux platform.
Sun Performance Library
The Sun Performance Library is a set of optimized, high-speed mathematical subroutines for solving linear algebra and other numerically intensive problems. It is based on a collection of public domain applications available from Netlib. These public domain applications have been enchanced and optimized for Sun high-performance platforms.
High Performance Computing
High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) applies numerical computation techniques to highly complex scientific and engineering problems. Sun Studio compilers and tools provide a seamless, integrated environment from desktop to TeraFLOPS for both floating-point and data-intensive computing.
Studio 12u1 Download
Posted at 03:58PM Jun 26, 2009 by hstsao in Sun Studio | Comments[0]
Sun HPC Cluster Tools 8.2
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 is based on Open MPI 1.3.3 and includes many new features
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 software is an integrated toolkit that allows developers to create and tune Message-passing Interface (MPI) applications that run on high performance clusters and SMPs. Sun HPC ClusterTools software offers a comprehensive set of capabilities for parallel computing.
Features
* Infiniband, shared memory, GbE, 10 GbE, and Myrinet MX communication support
* Sun Grid Engine plug-in
* Supports third-party parallel debuggers Totalview and Allinea DDT
* Integration with Sun Studio Analyzer
* compiler support -- Sun Studio, gnu, PGI, Intel, Pathscale
* Suspend / resume support
* Improved intra-node shared memory performance and scalability
* Infiniband QDR support
* Automatic path migration support
* Relocatable installation
Supported Platforms : all Sun UltraSPARC III or greater, all Sun Opteron-based platforms, all Sun Intel x86-based platforms.
Supported Operating Systems
* Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System or later
* OpenSolaris 2008.11 or later
* Linux RHEL 5
* Linux SLES 10
* Linux CentOS 5
Supported Compilers
* Studio 10, 11, 12, 12U1
* PGI (Linux only)
* Intel (Linux only)
* Pathscale (Linux only)
* gnu (Linux only)
Posted at 03:54PM Jun 26, 2009 by hstsao in HPTC | Comments[0]
Sun HPC Software Linux Edition 2.0
Free Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 Download
Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 is available to download now. Please note that technical support is not included with the software.
What You Get
* Lustre 1.8
* perfctr 2.6.38
* Env-switcher 1.0.13
* genders 1.11
* git 1.6.1.3
* Heartbeat 2.1.4-2.1
* Mellanox Firmware tools 2.5.0
* Modules 3.2.6
* MVAPICH 1.1
* MVAPICH2 1.2p1
* OFED 1.3.1
* OpenMPI 1.2.6
* RRDTool 1.2.30
* HPCC Bench Suite 1.2.0
* Lustre IOKit
* IOR 2.10.1
* LNET self test
* NetPIPE 3.7.1
* Slurm 1.3.13
* MUNGE 0.5.8
* Ganglia 3.1.01
* oneSIS 2.0.1
* Cobbler 1.4.1
* CFEngine 2.2.6
* Conman 0.2.3
* FreeIPMI 0.7.5
* IPMtool 1.8.10
* lshw B.02.14
* OpenSM 3.1.1
* pdsh 2.18
* Powerman 2.3.4
HPC stack 2.0 download
Posted at 03:48PM Jun 26, 2009 by hstsao in HPTC | Comments[0]
rockscluster 5.2 announce Solaris Clients
Rocks v5.2 is released for Linux on the i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures and for Solaris on the x86_64 architecture
Rocks v5.2 is released for Linux on the i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures and Solaris for the x86_64 architecture.
1. Solaris support for client nodes
With the new JumpStart Roll, one can now install and configure a Linux-based Rocks frontend to JumpStart Solaris-based back-end machines.
2. Attributes
Can assign attributes to nodes at four levels: global, appliance type, OS (e.g., Linux or SunOS), and host. An attribute can be accessed in an XML node as an entity. For example, if you assign the attribute foo with the value 123? to compute-0-0 (i.e., with the command, rocks set host attr foo 123?), then in an XML node file, you can access the value of the attribute foo with &foo;.
There will be Sun HPC cluster tool 8.2 roll and SunStudio 12u1 roll.
Posted at 03:39PM Jun 26, 2009 by hstsao in ROCKS | Comments[0]
solaris support for Edu customer
recent anncouncement of the solaris support volume discount for education
solaris support
Solaris Subscriptions - Standard Support Tiers for Education. Service Plans are annual.
| Number of Systems | Part Number | Edu List Price |
| 1-100 | EDUSSSOL100-ST | $964.00 |
| 101-300 | TEDUSSSOL300-ST | $1,690.25 |
| 301-500 | EDUSSSOL500-ST | $2,411.00 |
| 501-1000 | EDUSSSOL1000-ST | $3,618.50 |
| 1001-1500 | EDUSSSOL1500-ST | $4,820.50 |
| 1501-2000 | EDUSSSOL2000-ST | $5,983.25 |
| 2001-3000 | EDUSSSOL3000-ST | $7,231.50 |
Solaris Subscriptions - Premium Support Tiers for Education. Service Plans are annual.
| Number of Systems | Part Number | Edu List Price | |
| 1-100 | EDUSSSOL100-PR | $1,123.25 | |
| 101-300 | TEDUSSSOL300-PR | $1,965.50 | |
| 301-500 | EDUSSSOL500-PR | $2,808.00 | |
| 501-1000 | EDUSSSOL1000-PR | $4,212.00 | |
| 1001-1500 | EDUSSSOL1500-PR | $5,616.00 | |
| 1501-2000 | EDUSSSOL2000-PR | $7,020.00 | |
| 2001-3000 | EDUSSSOL3000-PR | $8,424.00 |
| x64/x86 on Sun or Non-Sun | 1-2 Sockets | 3 or More Sockets | |
| 1 Year - x64/x86 | $1080 | $1980 | |
| 3 Years - x64/x86 | $2980.80 | $5464.80 | |
SPARC | 1-2 Sockets | 3-4 Sockets | 5-8 Sockets |
| 1 Year - SPARC | $1080 | $2160 | $ 4320 |
| 3 Years - SPARC | $2980.80 | $5961.60 | $11,923.20 |
Standard Service Plan Pricing
| x64/x86 on Sun or Non-Sun | 1-2 Sockets | 3 or More Sockets | |
| 1 Year - x64/x86 | $720 | $1320 | |
| 3 Years - x64/x86 | $1987.20 | $53643.20 | |
SPARC | 1-2 Sockets | 3-4 Sockets | 5-8 Sockets |
| 1 Year - SPARC | $720 | $1440 | $ 2880 |
| 3 Years - SPARC | $1987.20 | $3974.40 | $7948.80 |
Basic Service Plan Pricing
| x64/x86 on Sun or Non-Sun | 1-2 Sockets | More than 2 Sockets |
| 1 Year - x64/x86 | $324 | NA |
| 3 Year - x64/x86 | $894.24 | NA |
SPARC | 1-2 Sockets | 3-4 Sockets |
| 1 Year - SPARC | $324 | NA |
| 3 Years - SPARC | $898.24 | NA |
Posted at 11:45AM Jun 07, 2009 by hstsao in Solaris 10 | Comments[0]
ZFS, /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and suncluster
ZFS still a very young FS and many new features with every new Solaris update and ZFS patch
This blog talk about /etc/zfs/zpool.cache behind the sence of zpool
The need of /etc/zfs/zpool.cache to speed up the import of ZFS may impact the HA-ZFS with Suncluster, the ZFS import happen before the Suncluster come to play.
In the beginning ZFS was designed to panic a system in the event of a catastrophic
write failure to a pool, since then zfs has introduce the failmode. PSARC 2007/567
The default behavior will be to "wait" for manual intervention before
allowing any further I/O attempts. Any I/O that was already queued would
remain in memory until the condition is resolved. This error condition can
be cleared by using the 'zpool clear' subcommand, which will attempt to resume
any queued I/Os.
The "continue" mode returns EIO to any new write request but attempts to
satisfy reads. Any write I/Os that were already in-flight at the time
of the failure will be queued and maybe resumed using 'zpool clear'.
Finally, the "panic" mode provides the existing behavior that was explained
above.
The syntax for setting the pool property utilizes the "set" subcommand defined
in PSARC 2006/577:
# zpool set failmode=continue pool
# zpool create -o failmode=continue pool
ZFs and suncluster
Sun alert Solution 245626 : ZFS Pool Corruption May Occur With Sun Cluster 3.2 Running Solaris 10 with patch 137137-09 or 137138-09
Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform:
* Solaris 10 with patch 139579-02 or later obsoleted by 139555-08
x86 Platform:
* Solaris 10 with patch 139580-02 or later obsoleted by 139556-08
To avoid this problem, install Solaris 10 patch 139579-02 (for SPARC) or 139580-02 (for x86) immediately after you install 137137-09 or 137138-09 but before you reboot the cluster nodes.
The latest Suncluster 3.2u2 patch for solaris 10
sparc 126106-30
x86 126107-30
There are some IDR patch for ZFS performance
To boot the system without import any zpool
boot -m milestone=none
return to normal
svcadm milestone all
Posted at 08:10PM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in General | Comments[0]
PCA- Patch Check advanced
Analyze, download and install patches for Sun Solaris.
By chance, I find this patching tool PCA
Created by
Martin Paul
Institute of Scientific Computing
Nordbergstrasse 15/C/3
1090 Wien
Austria
It seems has many follower
Other say about pca
Patch Check Advanced (pca) generates lists of installed and missing patches for Sun Solaris systems and optionally downloads patches. It resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in correct order. It can be the only tool you ever need for patch management, be it on a single machine or a complete network. Just one perl script, it doesn't need compilation nor installation, and it doesn't need root permissions to run. It works on all versions of Solaris, both SPARC and x86.
Features
Usage of pca is free of charge for private, educational and commercial use. No responsiblity is taken for any damage caused by using pca. You may modify pca's source code to fit your local needs. If sharing modified versions of pca with others, keep a reference to the original author and distribution site.
This is a discussion and support list
To subscribe, send an empty message to pca-join@lists.univie.ac.at. To leave the list, send an empty message to pca-leave@lists.univie.ac.at.
To post to the list, send your message to pca@lists.univie.ac.at. Messages to the list from non-subscribers are allowed, but moderated. If you are not subscribed, include a note that you'd like to receive a Cc: of any reply.
Please try it out
Installation
pca doesn't need any complicated compilation, installation or registration procedure, nor root permission. It's just one perl script.
Alternatively, pca is available as an SVR4 compliant package from Blastwave (maintained by D. Clarke), from OpenCSW (CSWpca, maintained by D. Michelsen) and on Sunfreeware (maintained by S. Christensen).
If you are forced to use a proxy for web access, make sure that wget is configured to use it: Set http_proxy in /etc/wgetrc or $HOME/.wgetrc or use the wgetproxy option with pca.
If you do not have wget installed on your system, download the current patch cross-reference file patchdiag.xref and move it to /var/tmp/ before running pca.
Posted at 06:28PM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in Solaris 10 | Comments[0]
xvm Ops Center
Get the Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1
Select the level of management requirements you need from one of the following offerings:
Sun xVM Ops Center can be purchased in two packs
Operating System support
xVM Ops Center Controller Minimum Specification
Due to the complexity of the xVM Ops Center, this is few software that customer can not just download and try it out:-(
Posted at 05:04PM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in xvm-V12N | Comments[0]
xvm-server latest
This is the latest development in xVM-server
posted by duncanha on April 30, 2009
Sun are concentrating on including xVM Server EA as a Beta-level feature of the next Ops Center release and will be pushing towards full support of the xVM hypervisor that's included with OpenSolaris in a future release of Ops Center.
The xVM Server Early Access code in Ops Center can be deployed through Ops Center only, not as a standalone product.
We have closed the separate xVM Server Early Access program because xVM Server EA is included as a feature of Ops Center.
Existing Ops Center customers who wish to upgrade to 2.1 and access the xVM Server functionality should contact their Sun sales or services representative
Posted at 04:24PM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in xvm-V12N | Comments[0]
Sun Storage 7xxx Unfied Storage System
Sun announced Sun Storage 7xxx Unified System the first product of the family 7110, one can find the docs here http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/stor-7110
Product Description The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage products provide efficient file and block data services to clients over a network, and a rich set of data services that can be applied to the data stored on the system. The Unified Storage Systems include support for a variety of industry-standard client protocols, including: * CIFS * NFS * HTTP * WebDAV * iSCSI * FTP Your Unified Storage System also includes new technologies to deliver the best storage price/performance and unprecedented observability of your workloads in production, including: * Analytics, a feature for dynamically observing the behavior of your system in real-time and viewing data graphically. * The Hybrid Storage Pool, composed of optional Flash-memory devices for acceleration of reads and writes, low-power, high-capacity disks, and DRAM memory, all managed transparently as a single data hierarchy. To manage the data that you export using these protocols, you can configure your Unified Storage System using our built-in collection of advanced data services, including: * RAID-Z (RAID-5 and RAID-6), Mirrored, and Striped * Snapshots, unlimited read-only and read-write, with snapshot schedules * Built-in Data Compression * Remote Replication of data for Disaster Recovery * Active-Active Clustering (in the Sun Storage 7410) for High Availability * Thin Provisioning of iSCSI LUNs * Virus Scanning and Quarantine * NDMP Backup and Restore To maximize the availability of your data in production, the Sun Storage products include a complete end-to-end architecture for data integrity, including redundancies at every level of the stack. Key features include: * Predictive Self-Healing and Diagnosis of all System FRUs: CPUs, DRAM, I/O cards, Disks, Fans, Power Supplies * ZFS End-to-End Data Checksums of all Data and Metadata, protecting data throughout the stack * RAID-6 (DP) and optional RAID-6 Across JBODs * Active-Active Clustering for High Availability * Link Aggregations and IP Multipathing for Network Failure Protection * I/O Multipathing between the Sun Storage 7410 and JBODs * Integrated Software Restart of all System Software Services * Phone-Home of Telemetry for all Software and Hardware Issues * Lights-out Management of each System for Remote Power Control and Console Access
Posted at 03:58PM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in General | Comments[0]
virtual iron first look
Virtual iron first look
The Virtual Iron solution consists of three components:
Price $799/socket
Feature Benefit
Posted at 03:57PM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in xvm-V12N | Comments[0]
Sun Net Connect to be disabled on May 30, 2009
Email send to all registered Net Connect customer on march 11, 2009
Sun Alert 257308 "On may 30, 2009 Sun Net Connect Service will be disabled. Failure to uninstall Client may cause downtime"
replacement solutions
Posted at 11:34AM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in General | Comments[0]
solaris 10 05/09 u7 release what's new
what new features of 05/09 (u7) release:
what new
Posted at 10:37AM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in Solaris 10 | Comments[0]
QDR Magnum infiniband Switch
During the sc08 Sun did showcase the new QDR Magnum infiniband Switch
QDR Magnum infibiband Switch
General observation on QNEM:
Posted at 09:59AM May 17, 2009 by hstsao in Infiniband | Comments[0]