Rational Pai

xVM Ops Center at KISTI

Thursday May 22, 2008

In March 2007, Sun Korea was selected as the vendor to provide Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) for the fourth supercomputer project at KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information). I understand this project will be completed in 2 phases. When both phases are completed, this supercomputer at KISTI will be the largest in Asia. Recently, I found out that Phase 1 is completed and the system will go into production after completion of the remaining stability tests.

Now, here is the cool thing. With TACC, Sun built the largest supercomputer in America and with KISTI, we will repeat that feat in Asia !!

And guess what, both supercomputers have xVM Ops Center in their software stack, to manage the compute nodes. The scale managed by xVM Ops Center in these two HPC supercomputer projects is vastly different though. At TACC, the number of compute nodes is a little shy of 4000 blades housed in 82 Sun Constellation (C48) racks, whereas at KISTI in Phase 1, we have four C48 racks that amount to 188 compute nodes.