Ben's friend, Matt, who showed us the CD case cluster last spring, is back, giving a presentation at The University next week. If you're interested in this kind of thing, you should check it out.
----- Forwarded message from Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:41:47 -0800 Subject: UO CIS Colloquium - Note: MONDAY, December 2 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Spam-Status: NO; rating = 8.48658e-26 *** PLEASE NOTE: SPECIAL DAY - MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 *** Redesigning the Cluster Architecture (or How to Build an 8TF 1024 Node Cluster) Matt Sottile Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT Clusters have proven to be capable of supporting high-performance scientific computations over the past decade, yet the technologies we use to build and manage them are the same or in some ways worse than those used over a decade ago. This is due in part to the fact that with great human effort, these technologies can be made to work for today's clusters with node counts in the hundreds. As the DOE and others begin investing in terascale clusters with node counts in the thousands, it is becoming increasingly clear that existing technologies will not scale. In this talk, we describe Clustermatic, our redesigned cluster architecture, and some of the key technologies (e.g., LinuxBIOS, BProc) that distinguish it from other approaches. These technologies are all open source and can be used independently of each other, but together they form an architecture that is both scalable and manageable at scale. Clustermatic has been used to build several mid-sized clusters which have served as proving grounds for a 1024-node cluster that will be installed at LANL in January of 2003. The LANL Cluster Home Page is at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/cluster DATE: MONDAY, December 2, 2002 TIME: 3:30 p.m. talk, refreshments following talk PLACE: 220 Deschutes Hall (Colloquium Room), University of Oregon HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE! HAVE A SAFE HOLIDAY!!! *************************************************************************** Cheri Smith Undergraduate Coordinator Computer & Information Science Phone: (541) 346-1376 1202 University of Oregon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97403-1202 Fax: (541) 346-5373 Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. *************************************************************************** ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
