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Super Computing 2009
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Research Organizations
About Caltech: With an outstanding faculty, including five Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, the California Institute of Technology is one of the world’s major research centers. The Institute also conducts instruction in science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates and 1,300 graduate students who maintain a high level of scholarship and intellectual achievement. Caltech’s
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GridFTP
GridFTP is a high-performance, secure, reliable data transfer protocol optimized for high-bandwidth wide-area networks. It is based upon the Internet FTP protocol, and it implements extensions for high-performance operation. GridFTP uses basic Grid security on both control (command) and data channels. Other features include multiple data channels for parallel transfers, partial file transfers, third-party (direct server-to-server) transfers, reusable data channels, and command pipelining. http://www.globus.org/grid_software/data/gridftp.php
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Hadoop
Apache Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters built of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named Map/Reduce, where the application is divided into many small fragments of work, each of which may be executed or reexecuted on any node in the cluster. In addition, it provides a distributed file system (HDFS) that stores data
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MonALISA
MonALISA, stands for Monitoring Agents using a Large Integrated Services Architecture, has been developed by Caltech and its partners with the support of the U.S. CMS software and computing program. The framework is based on Dynamic Distributed Service Architecture and is able to provide complete monitoring, control and global optimization services for complex systems. The MonALISA system is designed as an ensemble of autonomous multi-threaded, self-describing agent-based subsystems which are registered
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Outreach Activities during SC09
Caltech researchers hosted many presentations during the exhibit which were attended by a variety of audiences. Topics selected are: Agenda of the Talks 1. Energy Frontiers, the Early Universe and Information Technology 2. The CMS Computing Model 3. LHCLight 4. The ATLAS Computing Model 5. Use of the Hadoop FS in USCMS 6. Linux kernels for Terabit/sec networks 7. Worldwide Collaboration Tools: EVO and the EVO Green Initiative
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Team
Harvey NewmanIosif Legrand Artur BarczykMichael ThomasAzher MughalRamiro VoicuSandor Gyula RozsaBadar AhmedPhillipe GalvezDave AdamczykChip ChapmanRichard Cavanaugh (Florida)Philip Zeo (Brookhaven)Daniel Orsatti (Brookhaven)Shawn McKee (Michigan)James Grace (FIU)Rogerio Iope (USP)Samir Cury (UERJ)
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Show Floor
SCInet Waves This year 15 Waves from SCInet are planned, each providing connectivity from booth to SCInet NOC with details below: 1. 6 x 10GE to Caltech2. NLR PacketNet (via PacWave) to Seattle (KREONet)3. NLR PacketNet to Umich and MSU4. NLR FrameNet to LA Cenic5. NLR FrameNet to Florida & USLHCNet6. NLR FrameNet Starlight to USLHCNet & Ultralight7. Internet2 DCN8. Internet2 Abilene9. ESnet to UCSD10. CiscoWave to Brazil (via FLR)
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Booth Layout
Caltech Booth# 2135 had 30 x 30 feet dimension and was distributed in four main sections: 1. Display & Storage2. Equipment Racks3. Kiosks4. Workstations
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Planning
Servers Servers rack comprised of a set of 5 2U Twin Motherboard Supermicro servers. 2U Twin Servers Qty 5 Specification Per Motherboard Processor Dual Processor Xeon e5520 LGA1366 Quad-Core RAM 12GB Hard Disks 3 x 1.5TB SATA-II NIC Myricom 10GE SFP+ Storage Servers The Sun Fire X4540 server is based on the new AMD Istanbul processor, it doubles the computing capacity for the same disk subsystem. The new Sun Fire