SARA Computing & Networking Services

SARA Computing & Networking Services

Paul Wielinga

Business unit manager

High Performance Networking

Agenda

14.00 uur Opening Paul Wielinga 14:00 – 14:15 Inleiding Paul Wielinga 14:15 – 15:00 High Performance Networking

- Research and Innovation Mark Meijerink - Operations Sadi Koçak 15.00 – 15.30 TSM (Storage back-up

Implementatie bij SARA) Jurriaan Saathof 15:30 – 16:00 Pauze en info SARA Ans Sullot

16:00 – 16:30 Supercomputing Walter de Jong OptIPuter Tijs de Kler 16:30 – 17:00 Rondleiding computervloer Walter de Jong/

Mark Meijerink Rondleiding Cave Tijs de Kler Tiled Panel Display (TPD)

17.00 – 17.30 Rondleiding Cave Tijs de Kler Tiled Panel Display (TPD)

Rondleiding computervloer Walter de Jong/ Mark Meijerink 17.30 uur Afsluiting met informele borrel

About SARA

SARA is an independent not-for-profit company

delivering a full service package in the areas of

high-performance computing & networking, visualization and

virtual reality, data storage, grid services and hosting

SARA employs ~100 fte’s

First supercomputer in The Netherlands at SARA in 1984

(Control Data CYBER 205)

The mission of SARA is two-fold:

Providing high-performance computing,

-networking and -visualization not-for-profit services

to geographically dispersed education and research

communities across The Netherlands sharing data,

information and computation resources (National

e-Science Support & Grid Service Center)

Offering commercial ICT services based on the

expertise built in the high-end activities

Commercial Services will (slowly) be moved to new

BV: VANCIS BV from April 2008

VANCIS and SARA: One single Holding

SARA mission

SARA organization

SARA is divided into three business units:

High Performance Computing and Visualization

facilitating large-scale simulations mass-storage

grid services

visualization and data-analysis

High Performance Networking

management of SURFnet6 and NetherLight design and management of regional networks network research ICT services managed hosting on-demand services co-location ASP services

Co-location and hosting

ASP and database services

On-demand services

Network design and operations

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange)

SURFnet6

Regional education and medical networks

VNU (large content publisher)

Royal Library (KB)

KPN, BT, Google, etc

Commercial ICT services

SARA Amsterdam

National e-Science Support & Grid Service Center

Enhance Dutch Science by:

State-of-the-art integrated infrastructure, facilities and services (high-performance computing, -networking, data storage,

visualization, grid services)

Customer Support

Participation in National and International e-Science and Grid project’s

Development and implementation of new and advanced technologies

From research phase to deployment of innovative production facilities and services

Connection to and integration into international e-Infrastructures, collaboration

Supernode @SARA: Computing,

Networking,

Internet, Visualization and Storage

resources

CAVE National supercomputer

Storage

Tiled-panel displays

IBM Power5+ National Compute cluster

Netherlight

SURFnet6

Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (1)

Dutch National Supercomputer (capability computing)

Huygens I

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Huygens II (replaces Huygens I spring 2008)

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Dutch National Compute Cluster (capacity computing)

 690 Dell PowerEdge 1850 nodes

 dual Intel Xeon 3.4 GHz CPUs (em64t)

 Topspin low-latency high bandwidth Infiniband network

 Peak performance: 8,5 Tflop/s

Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (2)

CAVE (upgraded)

Operational since 1997, started with first SGI Onyx2 RealityMonster

SGI Onyx4 Ultimate Vision system

24 CPUs, 10 graphics pipes, 4 compositors FakeSpace CAVE

walls 4 x 3 meters, screen resolution 1400 x 1050 8 DLP projectors, Beacon Technology for stereo

Tiled panel display

15 high resolution LCD screens (21” 1600x1200) Total screen resolution 8000 x 3600 pixels

OptIPuter project

Render cluster

29 dual Intel Xeon nodes (HP) 29 high-end graphics cards

Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (3)

Storage on-demand

Advanced services on-demand EMC disk array (50 TB)

SAN and NAS storage, FC and SATA

Tape libraries

STK Powderhorn 9310, 9840C, 9940B drives STK SL8500, 9940B drives

Long-distance SAN (30km), off-site backup Current data transfer to/from tape av. 5TB/day Capacity ~8 PB (end 2006)

Doubling of stored data every year

Large storage of scientific data, simulation and experimentation (e.g. Tier-1 CERN)

Remote back-up on-demand service

SARA Amsterdam

National e-Science Support & Grid Service Center

Servicing the grid:

Grid Resource Center

Tflops computing (capability, capacity) Pbytes data storage

Lambda networking

High resolution visualization

Central Grid services Grid Support

enabling applications enabling (local) resources helpdesk

courses, training

Implementing new grid services and technologies

Participating in national and international innovation and infrastructure projects

National context

NL-Grid, BIG-Grid www.nwo.nl/ncf www.nikhef.nl www.nbic.nl

Virtual Lab e-Science www.vl-e.nl SURFnet6 network www.surfnet.nl www.gigaport.nl BioRange www.nbic.nl LOFAR www.lofar.nl Stichting Nationale Computer

Faciliteiten www.nwo.nl/ncf

International context

Data storage and processing EGEE grid www.eu-egee.org Supercomputing DEISA grid www.deisa.org Lambda networking GLIF, Netherlight www.glif.is

Visualization & networking OptIPuter www.optiputer.net

Thank you for your

attention

National e-Science Data Center

Central data storage and archiving facility at SARA for scientific data in The

Netherlands

LOFAR

LHC Tier – 1

KNMI

National

services

VL-e

BioRange

etc.

Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (3)

SURFnet6:

Managed dark fiber infrastructure

Congestion-free end-to-end transparent IP transport

1 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s and beyond Lambda services to eventually all connected organizations

One of the most advanced research networks in the world

Management of the network by SARA & Telindus

Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (4)

Netherlight: “Bring us

your Lambda’s”

Test facility for light path provisioning for

high-bandwidth Internet traffic Optical Internet exchange for NREN’s in Amsterdam

NetherLight as GLIF European focal point

GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility

Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA

National e-Science and Grid project’s

NL-Grid/

National production grid infrastructure SARA: provision of all central grid services NCF

Virtual Laboratory for E-science

Creation of e-Science environment SARA: Proof-of-Concept environment Bsik

Data-intensive sciences (LHC, LOFAR)

Grid infrastructure for data analysis and archiving SARA: design and deployment of grid infrastructure NIKHEF, ASTRON

BioAssist/BioRange

process bio-information from data to knowledge

SARA: service provision, appl. development support, PoC NBIC, NGI, Bsik

AlmereGrid

Desktop broadband grid

Data-intensive Sciences

High Energy Physics

DataGrid ( EU FP5 funded), EGEE (EU FP6 funded)

Data storage for

Tier-1 center

LCG data service challenge with SARA Storage Element (SE)

 understand what it takes to operate a real grid service, run

for days/weeks at a time

 get essential grid services ramped up to target levels of reliability, availability, scalability, end-to-end performance

 use of NL-light Amsterdam-Geneva Lambda connection

LOFAR

LOw Frequency ARray

World’s largest radio telescope

Project coordination by ASTRON (NL) Data production, order of 10 Tbytes/day

Role SARA: data archiving and -distribution and grid enabling Data challenge similar to HEP!

International e-Science and Grid project’s

DEISA

Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

SARA: Dutch supernode, security EU FP6 funding

EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-SciencE

SARA: Regional Operations Center Northern Europe, LHC Tier-1 EU FP6 funding

HPC-EUROPA

integrated provision of advanced computational services

SARA: enabling researchers to carry out collaborative research visits

EU FP6 funding

OptIPuter

infrastructure that will tightly couple computational resources over parallel optical networks using IP communication

SARA: development, persistent visualization node NSF funding