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| DATE | 2003-09-16 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Los Alamos Linux cluster to keep watch on nukes
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IS this Tim Wilcoxes Cluster?
On 2003.09.16 13:50 "Inker, Evan" wrote:
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> Los Alamos Linux cluster to keep watch on nukes
> Tue Sep 16, 8:00 AM ET
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1632&ncid=738&e=9&u=/techtar
> get/20030916/tc_techtarget/927983
>
> Amy Kucharik, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com Assistant Site Editor
>
> While the eagle gets the glory, the penguin is quietly standing guard over
> America's nukes. The Linux (news - web sites) penguin, that is.
>
> At Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the world's largest Linux clusters
> -- called Lightning -- will be standing guard over the United States'
> nuclear stockpile.
>
> Residing on Lightning, Los Alamos' Advanced Simulation and Computing
> program, or ASCI, will run three-dimensional simulations of nuclear
> detonations. Scientists "rely on experimental data analysis to understand
> how [nuclear weapons] are aging," said Los Alamos spokesman Jim Danneskiold.
>
>
> Los Alamos' cluster is a "2,816-processor system built out of 1,408 nodes,"
> said Dean Hutchings, chief operating officer of Linux Networx Inc., a
> Bluffdale, Utah-based cluster systems provider and the Lightning project
> vendor. "Each node or server has two processors in it, connected together by
> a high-speed interconnect in order to act as one big supercomputer."
>
> Lightning is a huge system, "probably about one and a half times the size of
> a tennis court," Hutchings said, noting that his company worked on a similar
> large system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
>
> Los Alamos' ASCI-Linux cluster will first be deployed at Linux Networx's
> facility. There, the project team will build and integrate the system "so
> that it's running as one complete unit," Hutchings said. "Then, we'll turn
> around, tear it down and rebuild it at the customer's facility." Getting the
> system up and working out all the bugs off-site "speeds up the deployment
> process for [Los Alamos] with very little intrusiveness on their data
> center," he said.
>
> Like many other scientific organizations, the lab has been using Linux since
> the mid-'90s, Danneskiold said. The proven price and performance of Linux
> made it the top choice for the Lightning project.
>
> Decision makers at Los Alamos realized that clustering with Linux is the way
> to "get a better bang for buck in terms of computer resources," said Dana
> Krelle, marketing vice president for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mellanox
> Technologies Inc. "You can use racks upon racks of industry-standard servers
> versus very high-priced, non-industry-standard servers and in that way get
> more computing capability for your money. That's what's driving clustering
> in general."
>
> Mellanox's InfiniBand server interconnect technology is being used in the
> cluster because it had been developed using open standards and was available
> from many vendors, Krelle said. Its openness gives it versatility, so it can
> be built up as a server, storage or other interconnect capability in a data
> center. Also, it provided better latency than Gigabit Ethernet, Krelle said.
>
>
> Linux Networx will provide two of its software tools -- Clusterworx and ICE
> Box -- to facilitate management of the cluster, according to Hutchings.
> Clusterworx allows the systems administrator to manage the entire cluster
> either locally or remotely. ICE Box is a power and heat management tool that
> continually manages the heat of the cluster and also allows the
> administrator, with the use of Clusterworx, to remotely manage the power of
> the cluster.
>
>
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