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BoilerGrid - Campus Grid at Purdue Preston Smith <psmith@purdue.edu> OSG All-Hands Meeting UNC - Chapel Hill March 4, 2008 Condor on RCAC Clusters Campus Condor Grid a central point for CI at Purdue Vehicle for federating

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BoilerGrid - Campus Grid at Purdue Preston Smith <psmith@purdue.edu>

OSG All-Hands Meeting UNC - Chapel Hill March 4, 2008

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  • Campus Condor Grid a central point for CI at

Purdue

– Vehicle for federating resources across campus and state – Resource also available to regional (NWICG) and national grids (OSG and TeraGrid)

  • RCAC Clusters are primarily scheduled with PBS

– Condor runs on same clusters, configured to run when PBS isn’t using a node – ~4000 cores in PBS clusters available to Condor

  • Some dedicated Condor-only resources

– Sizeable chunk of CMS Tier-2 – 48-node GPU rendering cluster in Envision Center

  • http://teradre.rcac.purdue.edu/

Condor on RCAC Clusters

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  • RCAC runs central manager services for campus
  • Sister unit in ITaP runs instructional computing

labs for students

– ~2500 machines - available for Condor 90% of the time!

  • Other academic units

– College of Technology (new HPC curriculum) – Libraries (catalog terminals) – Physics (LSST, VERITAS) – Structural Biology (major users) – Now other campuses!

  • Notre Dame, Purdue Calumet today
  • Soon: IU-Purdue Fort Wayne, Purdue North Central, Indiana

State BoilerGrid - Purdue Campus Grid

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BoilerGrid - Purdue Campus Grid

  • Science highlights:

– “Database of Hypothetical Zeolite Structures”

  • TeraGrid

– Cryo-EM image processing (structural biology)

  • Campus user - consumed 6M hours over last year.
  • Now capable of using Windows cycles.. Look out..

– Protein folding – “Football pool problem” – Plus many others

  • Distributed rendering, astrophysics, nanotechnology,

hydrology, network simulation, cytometry, management

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  • User experience

– “Just submit and go”, ideally from the user’s desk.

  • Usage Tracking

– A bit of a challenge getting job-level accounting for a job submitted from a user’s desk.

  • Storage

– The storage load on central storage is non-trivial, a robust storage infrastructure is crucial!

  • Engaging your campus

– Relationship with distributed IT staff, and potential interested faculty can only help you BoilerGrid - Purdue Campus Grid