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The Scientific Cluster Support service is a Laboratory program
designed to increase the contribution of scientific computing in
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley research projects by facilitating the production use of
high performance Linux clusters.
This service, offered by the UNIX and Cluster Computing Group in the IT
Division, helps research groups with specifying and procuring the right
cluster configuration, setting up and integrating the system, helping
researchers get their applications onto the cluster, then providing
cost-effective ongoing systems administration and cybersecurity support
in a room equipped with the necessary networking, cooling and electrical
infrastructure.
News
Oct 10, 2007
Fall Internet2 Member Meeting
SCS Project Manager Gary Jung will be giving a presentation on
"The Perceus Cluster Infrastructure - Next Generation Cluster Provisioning and
Management" to discuss a new method for effectively managing numerous Linux clusters at the upcoming Fall Internet2 member meeting in San Diego.
Details.
September 28, 2007
SCS services now available to UC researchers
The Vice Chancellor for Research, in partnership with Information Services and Technology (IST) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), is pleased to announce the Campus Cluster Computing Service. This service, formerly available only to LBNL-administered research, is now being made available to campus researchers.
Details.
Feb 7, 2007
Arup Chakraborty Wins DOE E.O. Lawrence Award
Winning the DOE Lawrence Award this year in the category of Life Sciences
was Arup Chakraborty, a professor now at MIT. Chakraborty has
been a pioneer in the use of computer simulations for immunological research
and did
much of his award-winning research on T cells using
a 96-processor Linux cluster built by the SCS Program while he was at Berkeley Lab.
Full Story.
May 29, 2006
Super Storage
- Federal Computing Week interview with SCS Project Manager Gary Jung on storage for HPC clusters
April 17, 2006
Open MPI: Next Generation Message Passing Library
The IT Division's Scientific Cluster Support program is hosting a talk
by Open MPI (http://www.open-mpi.org/) developer, George Bosilca of the
University of Tennessee, on Monday April 17, 2006 from noon- 1:30 p.m
in 50B-4205. His talk will cover the basic architecture of Open MPI,
its modular approach, and more advanced features. For more details, see
here.
February 2006
We team with Dell and NCSA once again -
this time to build two clusters in one week. The first cluster is
a Dell 296 Intel processor Infiniband cluster for the
new
Molecular Foundry
Nanoscience facility. The second cluster is a
Dell 388 Intel processor Infiniband cluster that was
assembled by adding a 132 processor expansion for
Geochemistry
onto
the existing Geophyics cluster in order to accomodate both geoscience programs.
September 16, 2005
Our latest project is a joint collaboration with Dell and our friends at
the NCSA Supercomputing Center.
Just last month, we took delivery of
a new Dell 256 3.6GHz Intel Xeon processor Infiniband cluster paired with
a 3TB Panasas parallel filesystem and we
teamed with NCSA to build it in record time. 6 days! We've just completed the
acceptance tests and a final HPL run: 1516 Gflops sustained performance
with an 83.43% efficiency! It is now in production running geophysics
applications for the Earth Sciences Division.
read more...
August 8, 2005
The SCS program was presented with the Larry L. Sautter Silver
Award for Innovation in Information Technology by the UC Office
of the President. The award, presented at this week's annual
UC Computing Services Conference in San Francisco, recognizes
SCS for its achievement in university computing. SCS's project
director Tammy Welcome and project lead Gary Jung also presented
a talk on the program to spur collaboration with UC partners
at the conference. The nomination for this award can be found here.
November 8-11, 2004
At SuperComputing 2004, Warewulf co-developer Tim Mattox will be
be showing off his latest additions to
Berkeley Lab's Warewulf Cluster Toolkit.
New features such as direct PXE booting support and 64-bit support have been added.
Other enhancements, including support
for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3.x, cAos,
and CentOS 3.x are now included.
See the Warewulf demo at the University of Kentucky booth #853.
November 14, 2003
At SuperComputing 2003, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be
hosting a booth and we will be showing off Berkeley Lab's
Warewulf
Cluster Toolkit developed by our own Greg Kurtzer and
used by the SCS clusters.
If you are planning
on attending, make sure you drop by booth R231 and say hello.
read more...
November 14, 2003
In Silico Studies Shed Light on Immune System
Drawing on the power of a cluster of microcomputers at Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., researchers have used computer modeling to point the way to new findings about the presence of an "adaptive control function" in the immune system. The findings not only shed new light on the functioning of the immune system, but also highlight the utility of computer modeling in biological research.
Read more...
September 25, 2003
Computer Simulations Point Way to New Finding About the Immune System
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