High Performance Computing Grid
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Wayne State University has developed a high performance Grid enabled computing system that houses and manages research related projects. The Grid handles projects requiring high speed computation, parallel and distributed computing, data management, and computationally intensive applications. This enables users to utilize numerous processors in different systems simultaneously. These systems are joined by high speed networks allowing them to function effectively as a single unit. The Grid currently has the combined processing power of 1558 cores: 898 Intel cores, 660 AMD Opteron cores, with over 2TB of RAM and over half a petabyte of disk space. The system is open to any researcher at WSU. |
Mission
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Scientific Computing's mission is to advance and support high performance computing for Wayne State University and its affiliates by providing services in a high quality and responsive manner. |
Updates
May 8, 2012,
- New 64-bit public queues available
- The Grid has undergone a major refresh which affects all users of the public queues. The 32bit queues ajsq (majsq), mdtq (mmdtq), and xenq will be completely decommissioned tomorrow morning (Wednesday May 9th). They have been replaced with two new queues. The asxq, 40 nodes with 4 16 core 2.6GHz AMD processors and 128 GB of RAM, and the msxq, 56 nodes with 2 6 core 2.93GHz Intel processors and 96 GB of RAM. Every user has a guaranteed space on these nodes, 32 cores on the asxq and 12 cores on the mtxq. There are also mass queues, masxq and mmtxq, which users may use to run jobs that require more resources. These queues fill nodes 7-40 on the masxq and 13-56 on the mmtxq. These jobs may be suspended per PBSs algorithm for fair use, or by users that require resources on the primary queue if all machines are used. These ranges may change depending upon usage statistics.
This refresh was funded by C&IT and represents a major investment in high performance computing by the University. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments. Have fun taking advantage of these new resources!
April 26, 2012
- 32-bit nodes begin going out of service
- Began draining all 32bit equipment. No new 32bit jobs will be accepted. Existing 32bit Jobs will continue to run up to May 9th
January 11, 2012
- ATLAS 3.8.4, LAPACK 3.4.0 installed
- ATLAS has been updated to version 3.8.4: /wsu/arch/amd64/lib/ATLAS/lib/Linux
LAPAC has been updated to version 3.4.0: /wsu/arch/amd64/lib/lapack-3.4.0
January 3, 2012
- Consed Installed
- Consed has been installed on the Grid:
/wsu/arch/x86_64/consed/consed (for 64bit nodes)
/wsu/arch/i386/consed/consed (for 32bit nodes)
December 23, 2011
- Phrap Installed
- Phrap has been installed on the Grid: /wsu/arch/x86_64/phrap
December 16, 2011
- IBM ILOG CPLEX Studio 12.3 Installed
- The IBM ILOG CPLEX Studio optimization software package has been installed on the Grid: /wsu/arch/amd64/ILOG/CPLEX_Studio_Academic123/cplex/bin/x86-64_sles10_4.1
You need to have the following environment variable set to run it:
export ILOG_LICENSE_FILE=/wsu/arch/amd64/ILOG/CPLEX_Studio_Academic123/ilm/access.ilm
December 5, 2011
- MUSCLE 3.8.31 Installed
- The MUSCLE, Multiple Sequence Alignnment software has been installed on the Grid: /wsu/arch/amd64/muscle-3.8.31
October 10, 2011
- Grid Refresh Project
- The Grid support staff is happy to announce that we are currently requesting proposals for equipment that will be added to the Grid. The equipment will drastically increase the performance of the Grid and will replace our 32bit equipment. This will lead to a 50% reduction in both the consumption of power and amount of space currently being used by the Grid. For more information see the Grid Refresh Project RFP Requirements page.