Monday November 12, 2007
Monday November 12, 2007 University of Warsaw: New HPC Perspectives and Prospects
Marek Niezgodka, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw spoke this weekend at the HPC Consortium meeting in Reno.
ICM is a high-end computng center for research and applications in Poland, a national laboratory in computational and informational sciences, and a partner and leader on multiple grid projects.
ICM research focuses in several areas, including:
- Distributed information systems and grids, including healthcare infrastructure and distributed high-end computing
- Quantitative biology of systems, including bioinformatics, functional proteomics, protein engineering, etc.
- Design and characterization of functional materials, which includes nanomaterials and bionanomaterials.
- Biomedical modelling of blood circulation and physiology, tissue engineering, and imaging.
- Non-linear process dynamics of complex networks
In addition to research activities, the Center is heavily involved in delivering wide-area services. For example, numerical weather prediction for central Europe at a 4km horizontal resolution and additional prediction for the northern Atlantic and Asia. ICM also functions as a knowledge repository, a healthcare grid for cardiology, and it offers large-scale data processing and analysis for industry and the public sector.
ICM is currently undergoing a significant infrastructure expansion, including a doubling of staff to approximately 300 by 2010, data expansion to between 5 and 10 Petabytes by 2009. Compute capabilities will be expanded to a total capacity of approximately 100 TFLOPs. This deployment is currently underway and will be completed in 2008. The core of this system is built with Sun Constellation components, including Thumper (X4500) storage.
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What I don't understand is, Sun cluster is supposed to have an eight node limit, and all of these customers seem to be running clusters with far more nodes than eight.
How was this achieved?
Posted by UX-admin on November 12, 2007 at 07:44 PM EST #
There is a difference between Sun Cluster [1] and Sun HPC ClusterTools [2].
[1] http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cluster/index.xml
[2] http://www.sun.com/software/products/clustertools/
ClusterTools is for the HPC space while Sun Cluster is geared towards the High Availability space.
Posted by Dan Lacher on November 12, 2007 at 07:52 PM EST #
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Dan is exactly correct. Clustering in High Performance Computing involved the cooperative use of large numbers of nodes and processes to solve problems. Clustering for High Availability invlves very different technologies that are designed to allow non-stop running of important services.
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Josh
Posted by Josh Simons on November 12, 2007 at 08:57 PM EST #
Thank you both for the clarification.
Any chance of having both HA and HPC in one package?
I'm trying to push Sun Cluster in my organization and they're killing me with the argument that Veritas cluster can have unlimited number of nodes, while Sun cluster is only limited to eight.
Posted by UX-admin on November 13, 2007 at 12:35 PM EST #
Merry Christmas
Posted by michael wang on December 25, 2007 at 01:05 AM EST #