Resource centre NIIFI SC

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The resource currently consists of two SUN Fire (SMP) machines (regina and codex)
 
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totaling to 216 cores providing 0.5 Tflop/s computational power. The operating system is
 
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SPARC Solaris 9.
 
= Parallel programming models =
= Parallel programming models =
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Supported parallel programming paradigms and APIs:
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Supported parallel programming paradigms are MPI, OpenMP, PVM and Hybrid.
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* PVM3 – 3.4.4
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* lammpi – 7.1.4
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* OpenMP supported
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= Development software =
= Development software =
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Solaris specific tools and GNU development programs are available:
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== ''Infrastructural services'' ==
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* Sun One Studio Compiler Kit – 5.0
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* ddd – 3.3.1
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* g77, g++, gcc – 3.4.6
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* gdb – 5.0
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= Infrastructural services =
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'''User administration, authentication, authorization, security'''
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== User administration, authentication, authorization, security ==
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Users can access it with SSH public key authentication
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The users are authecticated from LDAP. There is a dedicated LDAP tree for this:
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'''Workflow and batch management'''
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o=GRID,o=NIIF,c=HU The default Sun Solaris PAM LDAP module is used with the POSIX
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account schema.
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== Workflow and batch management ==
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Sun Grid Engine 6.2u5 local resource manager
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Sun Grid Engine is the local resource manager system. Its version is SGEEE pre6.0 (Maintrunk).
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'''Distributed filesystem and data management'''
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Configured queues:
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* arc1 (interactive queue for the ARC middleware, regina is the execution machine)
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* codex.in (interactive queue for codex)
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* codex.q (batch queue for codex)
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* regina.in (interactive queue for regina)
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* regina.q (batch queue for regina)
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* regina.test (regina test queue)
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== Distributed filesystem and data management  ==
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There are two filesystems available to users (/home, /scratch) where /scratch is for temporary files created during job execution and it is shared beetween the worker nodes.
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Quick File System (QFS) is used. The storage frontend machine is the anulus which has optical connection. Every machine see the storage by the same way.
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'''Accounting and resource management'''
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== Accounting and resource management  ==
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Sun Grid Engine's accounting
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The resource management software is the Sun15k’s System Management Services (SMS) and the accounting is provided by the Sun Grid Engine.
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'''Operational monitoring'''
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== Operational monitoring ==
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Operational monitoring is performed using various tools: Nagios, Munin
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The supercomputers monitoring encapsulated into the NIIFI’s Nagios v3 system and the resource parameters recorded into the NIIFI’s Munin tool.
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'''Helpdesk and user support'''
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== Helpdesk and user support ==
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User support is provided through mailing lists and dedicated hu_niifi queue at HP-SEE Helpdesk
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Users can ask help by mail and telephone announcement.
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= Libraries and application tools =
= Libraries and application tools =
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Software libraries, development and application software available:  
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1) '''Software libraries:'''
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* Sun HPC ClusterTools – 5.0
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* FFTW – 2.1.3 and 3.1.2
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PVM3, FFTW3, Blas, Lapack, MPICH2, OpenMPI
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* ScaLapack – 1.7
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* mpiblacs – 1.1
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2) '''Development and application software available:'''
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* BLAS – Fortran77 reference implementation of the LEVEL 1, 2, and 3
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* LAPACK – lite-3.1.1
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GDB, GNU compilers (gcc, g++, gfortran)
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* Scilab – 2.7
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* RasMol – 2.7.1
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== ''Access the NIIFI SC'' ==
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* Meep – 1.1.1
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* GAUSSIAN – 03
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* GROMACS – 3.3.1
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== ''Support'' ==
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HP-SEE researchers should use the help desk - https://helpdesk.hp-see.eu/.
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If you don’t have an account send mail to Ioannis Liaboti - iliaboti at grnet dot gr.
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Additional way of support is through direct contact address: hpc-admin at ipb dot ac dot rs.

Revision as of 15:07, 30 November 2011

Contents


Parallel programming models

Supported parallel programming paradigms are MPI, OpenMP, PVM and Hybrid.

Development software

Infrastructural services

User administration, authentication, authorization, security

Users can access it with SSH public key authentication

Workflow and batch management

Sun Grid Engine 6.2u5 local resource manager

Distributed filesystem and data management

There are two filesystems available to users (/home, /scratch) where /scratch is for temporary files created during job execution and it is shared beetween the worker nodes.

Accounting and resource management

Sun Grid Engine's accounting

Operational monitoring

Operational monitoring is performed using various tools: Nagios, Munin

Helpdesk and user support

User support is provided through mailing lists and dedicated hu_niifi queue at HP-SEE Helpdesk

Libraries and application tools

1) Software libraries:

PVM3, FFTW3, Blas, Lapack, MPICH2, OpenMPI

2) Development and application software available:

GDB, GNU compilers (gcc, g++, gfortran)

Access the NIIFI SC

Support

HP-SEE researchers should use the help desk - https://helpdesk.hp-see.eu/. If you don’t have an account send mail to Ioannis Liaboti - iliaboti at grnet dot gr. Additional way of support is through direct contact address: hpc-admin at ipb dot ac dot rs.

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