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On High Performance Computing and Grid Activities at VilniusGediminas Technical University (VGTU)
dr. Vadimas StarikovičiusVGTU, Parallel Computing [email protected]
dr. Dalius Mažeika VGTU, Parallel Computing [email protected]
2nd NGN workshop, Estonian Academy of Science, Tallinn 19 – 21 January 2005
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Outline
Brief history of high performance computing at VGTU
Parallel Computing Laboratory (PCL)
Computational resources at VGTU
PCL research activities
GRID activities at VGTU
Future plans
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Brief history
1996 - first PC cluster (2 PC) was build using Linux. PVM.
1997 - High Performance Computing project for was supported by Lithuanian Government and IBM.
1998 - IBM SP2 was installed and IBM RS/6000 cluster was build.
1999 - first PhD theses on parallel computing was defended and Toolkit for sequence code parallelization was developed.
2000 - Parallel computing Laboratory at VGTU was established.
2002 - PC cluster (20 CPUs) was build (Rpeak = 28 GFlops)
2004 - PC cluster expansion till 36 CPUs (Rpeak = 130 GFlops)
2004 - GRID testbed (VGTU-KUT-BGM)
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Parallel computing laboratory (PCL)
Main activities
• Maintenance and development of computing systems
• Offering free access to computational facilities to all Lithuanian universities and research institutes
• Consulting, expertise, training and educational activities
• Research in the area of high-performance computers and parallel algorithms
Staff - 5 persons (1 professor, 3 doctors, 1 programmer)
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Parallel computing systems at VGTU
• IBM SP named Daumantas– 4 Thin nodes with High Performance
Switch
– Specification of the Node:• RISC POWER2 120 MHz processor• 128MB RAM• 4,5 GB SCSI-2 HDD• 110 MB/s Enhanced Switch Adapter• 155 Mb/s ATM adapter• 36.4 GB SSA disks array• AIX v.4.3.3• POE v.2.4 (MPI implementation from IBM)
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Parallel computing systems at VGTU
Self made PC cluster named Vilkas (36 CPU)
–Specifications of 16 nodes• Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Prescott HT • 1 GB 400 MHz DDRAM PC3200 • 200 GB HDD SATA• Gigabit Ethernet NIC
–Specifications of the 10 SMP nodes• Dual Intel Tualatin Pentium III 1.4 GHz L2 512KB• 1 GB DDRAM 266 MHz• 80 GB HDD ATA/133• Gigabit Ethernet NIC
–Total:• 36 (16 + 20) CPU• 20 GB RAM• 5.6 TB HDD• Peak performance Rpeak = 130 Gflop/s
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PCL research activities
• Development of Parallel Algorithms for industrial problems modelling – Nonlinear optics problem– Multiphase flow in porous media– Parallel Discrete Element Method for flows of
granular materials.
• Development parallelization tools– Master – slave automatic parallelization toolkit– Tool for parallelization of Branch and Bound
algorithms– Parallel C++ Arrays toolkit
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VGTU GRID
• Build using Globus Toolkit 3.2.1• Motivation
– basic block in most GRID’s middleware– to get experience
• building from source• configuring services step by step
– possibility to include AIX, Windows machines– to test web services based middleware
• Web Services vs. Pre-WS services
• Plans: Condor-G, MPICH-G2, GENIUS
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GRID testbed
Proxy
VGTU36CPU PC cluster
(GT 3.2)
KUT12CPU PC cluster
(GT 3.2)
BGM22CPU Itanium2
(NPACKage GT 2.2.4)
C&A
C&A
1Gbps
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Future plans
• Participate in LithuanianGRID, forming BalticGRID, NorduGRID
• Extend computational resourses using EU funds for Lithuanian studies and science infrastructure
• Extend activities and staff of PCL
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Thank you for attention…