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Opening Workshop DAS-2
(Distributed ASCI Supercomputer 2)
Project
vrije Universiteit
Program
10.00 - 11.00
- Onno Boxma (NWO-GBE, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology)
Opening
- Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory)
Open Grid Services Architecture
11.30 - 11.40 Henri Bal (VU) - Introduction DAS-2
11.40 - 12.00 John Romein (VU) - Retrograde analysis
12.00 - 12.30 Dick Epema (Delft) - Processor co-allocation
13.45 - 14.30 Daron Green (IBM) - IBM and Grid computing
14.30 - 15.00 Adam Belloum (Amsterdam) - Virtual laboratories
15.30 - 16.00 Herbert Bos & Lex Wolters (Leiden) - Education
16.00 - 16.30 Aad van der Steen (Utrecht) - Distributed data assimilation
Distributed ASCI Supercomputer 2
(DAS-2)
Henri Bal
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculty of Sciences
Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (1)
• Shared testbed for research on parallel and
distributed computing
- Set up by ASCI research school in 1997
- Geographically distributed cluster-based system
- 4 clusters with 200 nodes in total
- Homogeneous (same processors,
network, OS)
• Opening workshop: 2 March 1998
- Carl Kesselman, Andrew Grimshaw
Second testbed: DAS-2
• ASCI obtained funding from N.W.O. in June 2000
• ASCI committee to do detailed design and selection
- Henri Bal, Bob Hertzberger, Henk Sips, Lex Wolters,
Aad van der Steen, Cees de Laat
• Decisions
- Homogeneous architecture
- Nodes: dual Pentium-IIIs (SMPs)
- Network: Myrinet + Ethernet (OS)
- OS (Linux)
- Vendor (IBM), configuration, ….
• Installation by IBM: November 2001
VU (72)
Amsterdam (32)
DAS-2
GigaPort
Leiden (32)
Delft (32)
Utrecht (32)
200 SMP nodes (IBM xSeries) with two 1GHz Pentium-IIIs,  1 Gbyte memory
Systems research in ASCI
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Distributed supercomputing (Albatross)
Mapping data-parallel programs (AUTOMAP)
Compilers for distributed/embedded systems (JOSES)
High-performance Java (Manta)
Middleware for scalable wide-area applications (Globe)
Distributed web caching
Dynamic task migration (Dynamite)
Resource management in wide-area systems
Quality of Service
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
Applications research in ASCI
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Virtual laboratories (VL)
Image processing (PILE)
Weather forecasting (Hirlam)
Search in large image databases
Ubiquitous communications (UBICOM)
N-body simulations (GRAPE)
Web servers
Autonomous interacting robots (AIR)
DAS-2 Application performance
• Case study: endgame databases for Awari
• 1995 (Bal & Allis, Supercomputing’95):
- Computed database with 5 108 entries on 80-node
MicroSparc cluster (predecessor of DAS-1)
• 2002 (Romein & Bal):
- See how far we get on DAS-2 towards solving the
entire game (9  1012 entries) ….