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Condor@Cardiff
Dr Hugh Beedie
Dr James Osborne
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Condor_History@Cardiff
• Led by Information Services directorate– Not by the School of Computer Science– A Solution looking for problems
• Began as a pilot project in April 2004• First user from the School of Business• Supported on a best efforts basis for 21 months• Funding for 1yr post from January 2006 JO • Novell Zenworks to deliver to workstations
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Condor_Pool@Cardiff
• Windows only• Student workstations initially• Now adding staff workstations• Now up to 1400 workstations• Demand growing near supply• Plans to add more staff workstations• Plans to experiment with flocking• Lots of applications
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Central Manager
1400 Workstations
25 Workstations
Submit Nodes
Execute Nodes
master, startd, starter
master, schedd, shadow
master, collector, negotiator
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Condor_Takes_Flight@CardiffExpansive Forces
• All publicity is good publicity– Presentations
• Tag on to research seminars• Given on request
– Newsletters • Cardiff News x3 with focus on COMSC, OPTOM, BIOSI• Research Fortnight (like www.researchresearch.com)
• Word of mouth– Alice is a happy user, tells Bob, Bob is a happy user
• Donations of more machines to the pool– Progressive Local Computing Representatives
JO
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Condor_Takes_Flight@CardiffCompressive Forces
• Need more machines in the pool– Resistive Local Computing Representatives
• Need more heterogeneity in the pool– Windows only pool today– Windows and Linux pool in the future ?
• Campus level pool, not a school level pool• Dual Boot or CoLinux
– Too much effort
• Virtual Machines– Maybe with VMWare Player 6 and Lab Manager
• Environmental restrictions– IP address space, MAC addresses NAT
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Condor_Depts@Cardiff
• ARCHI = School of Architecture• BIOSI = School of Biosciences• CARBS = School of Business• COMSC = School of Computer Science• ENGIN = School of Engineering• EPIDE = School of Epidemiology• HISAR = School of History and Archaeology• INSRV = Information Services Directorate• MATHS= School of Mathematics• OPTOM = School of Optometry and Vision Sciences• PHYSX = School of Physics• SOCSI = School of Social Sciences
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Condor_Apps@Cardiff
• ARCHI = Energyplus• BIOSI = Blast, Lea, Leadmix, Paup, R, Structure• CARBS = Oxcal, Monte Carlo - Econometric Modelling• COMSC = Matlab, Monte Carlo - Radiation Transport,
Monte Carlo - WIFI Roaming, Image Processing• ENGIN = Travelling Salesman Problem, Geological Modelling• EPIDE = R• HISAR = Oxcalwin• INSRV = Perl, Grinder• MATHS= Computational Fluid Dynamics - Polymers and Gels• OPTOM = Dammin, Damfilt, Gasbor• PHYSX = Fourier Analysis• SOCSI = Siesta*
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Condor_Users@Cardiff
• ARCHI 1*• BIOSI 5• CARBS 2• COMSC 2• ENGIN 2• EPIDE 2
• HISAR 2*• INSRV 1• MATHS 2• OPTOM 2• PHYSX 1• SOCSI 1*
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Condor_Users@CardiffQ1 2006
ARCHI
BIOSI
CARBS
COMSC
ENGIN
EPIDE
HISAR
INSRV
MATHS
NGS
OPTOM
PHYSX
OTHER
JO
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Condor_Users@CardiffQ2 2006
ARCHI
BIOSI
CARBS
COMSC
ENGIN
EPIDE
HISAR
INSRV
MATHS
NGS
OPTOM
PHYSX
OTHER
JO
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Condor_Users@CardiffQ3 2006
ARCHI
BIOSI
CARBS
COMSC
ENGIN
EPIDE
HISAR
INSRV
MATHS
NGS
OPTOM
PHYSX
OTHER
JO
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Condor_Users@CardiffQ4 2006
ARCHI
BIOSI
CARBS
COMSC
ENGIN
EPIDE
HISAR
INSRV
MATHS
NGS
OPTOM
PHYSX
OTHER
JO
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Condor_Users@CardiffQ1 2007
ARCHI
BIOSI
CARBS
COMSC
ENGIN
EPIDE
HISAR
INSRV
MATHS
NGS
OPTOM
PHYSX
OTHER
JO
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Condor_Usage@Cardiff
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Q1-06 Q2-06 Q3-06 Q4-06 Q1-07
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Condor_Issues@Cardiff
• Full Economic Costing– Can it be done ?– How to hook new users ?
• Give them an inch and make them pay for a mile (later)– How to re-assure resource owners ?
• National Grid Service– Ours is the only Windows based Condor pool– Our adaptations to the GITS tests not ratified yet
• Campus Grid Roadmap– Access (portal vs command line) MWE– Authentication (managing and hiding certificates) SHIB
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Condor_Research@Cardiff
• Osborne, J and Hardisty, A. Cardiff Universitys Condor Pool: Background, Case Studies, and fEC. In S. Cox, editor, Proceedings of 5th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, pages 361-364, Nottingham, UK, September 18th to September 21st 2006.
• Baldock, C., Siegler, V., Bax, D.V., Cain, S.A., Mellody, K.T., Marson, A., Haston, J.L., Berry, R., Wang, M.C., Grossmann, J.G., Roessle, M., Kielty, C.M., Wess, T.J. (2006) Nanostructure of fibrillin-1 reveals compact conformation of EGF arrays and mechanism for extensibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103: 11922-11927.
• Dyksterhuis, L.B., Baldock, C., Lammie, D., Wess, T.J., Weiss, A.S. (2007) Domains 17*27 of tropoelastin contain key regions of contact for coacervation and contain an unusual turn-containing crosslinking domain. Matrix Biology, 26:125-135.
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Summary
• Positive research impact– 3 research papers
• Efficient use of resources– Clusters are wasted on uncoupled jobs
• Saves power and the environment– Compared to clusters
• Campus level pools vs school level pools– Automate, automate, automate
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