SARA Computing & Networking Services

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1 SARA Computing & Networking Services Paul Wielinga Business unit manager High Performance Networking

2 Agenda 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 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) Rondleiding Cave Tijs de Kler Tiled Panel Display (TPD) Rondleiding computervloer Walter de Jong/ Mark Meijerink uur Afsluiting met informele borrel

3 About SARA SARA is an independent not-for-profit company delivering a full service package in the areas of highperformance 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) First CAVE in Europe in 1997

4 SARA mission 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

5 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

6 Commercial ICT 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 SARA Amsterdam SARA Almere

7 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 Our focus is to support frontier research

8 Computing, Networking, Internet, Visualization and Storage resources IBM Power5+ National Compute cluster Storage National supercomputer EMC Storage-on-demand CAVE Netherlight SURFnet6 Tiled-panel displays

9 Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (1) Dutch National Supercomputer (capability computing) Huygens I 14 Tflop/s Power5+ system Mei e kwartaal 2008 Huygens II (replaces Huygens I spring 2008) 60 Tflop/s Power6 system 2 e kwartaal 2008 eind 2011 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 25 TB disk space

10 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 DLP projectors, Beacon Technology for stereo Tiled panel display 15 high resolution LCD screens ( x1200) Total screen resolution 8000 x 3600 pixels OptIPuter project Render cluster 29 dual Intel Xeon nodes (HP) 29 high-end graphics cards

11 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 SARA Amsterdam Large storage of scientific data, simulation and experimentation (e.g. Tier-1 CERN) Remote back-up on-demand service SARA Almere

12 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

13 National context Stichting Nationale Computer Faciliteiten BioRange LOFAR SURFnet6 network Virtual Lab e-science NL-Grid, BIG-Grid

14 International context Visualization & networking OptIPuter CineGrid Lambda networking GLIF, Netherlight Supercomputing DEISA grid Data storage and processing EGEE grid

15 Thank you for your attention SARA Computing & Networking Services

16 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.

17 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

18 Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure (4) Netherlight: Bring us your Lambda s Test facility for light path provisioning for highbandwidth Internet traffic Optical Internet exchange for NREN s in Amsterdam

19 NetherLight as GLIF European focal point GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA

20 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 SARA: applications and technology provider

21 Data-intensive Sciences High Energy Physics DataGrid ( EU FP5 funded), EGEE (EU FP6 funded) Data storage for Tier-1 center (NIKHEF/SARA): order of 2-10 PBytes/year 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!

22 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