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PodcastRCE 15: BCFG2
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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Narayan Desai and Cory Lueninghoener of Argonne National Laboratory, about BCFG2 (http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2). Narayan Desai is a principal experimental systems engineer at Argonne National Laboratory. He specializes in system software and system management issues, specifically for very large scale parallel computing systems. He has written and spoken widely on these issues, and leads the Bcfg2 configuration management project. Cory Lueninghoener is a high performance computing system administrator at Argonne National Laboratory. After starting out on modest-sized clusters while a grad student at the University of Nebraska, he worked his way up the Top500 list and is currently a lead administrator on Intrepid, Argonne's 40 rack BlueGene/P system. He is especially interested in configuration management on large HPC resources and is an active participant in the Bcfg2 project. RCE 14: Lustre Cluster FileSystem
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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Andreas Dilger of Sun on the Lustre (www.lustre.org) cluster filesystem. Andreas Dilger is currently one of the principal filesystem architects for the Lustre filesystem, on which he has been working since its inception. He has started doing filesystems and storage development in 1999, when he RCE 12: BLCR
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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Paul Hargrove of the Berkley Labratory Checkpoint Restart (BLCR) project, for checkpointing, restartaring and migrating HPC applications. Notes: All library code is LGPL; kernel module and the (small) user-space utils are GPL. There is also support for BLCR in SLURM 2.0 which is not mentioned in the show. Since 2000, Paul has been a Principle Investigator in the Future Technologies Group (FTG) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His general area of work can be described as systems software and runtime environments for High Performance Computing (HPC). His current research interests include Checkpoint/Restart, Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages, and high-performance cluster networks. Current projects include Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart (BLCR) for Linux, Global Address Space Networking (GASNet), and Berkeley Unified Parallel C (UPC). Paul received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003. RCE 13: Boinc
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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with David Anderson (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/anderson/) of the Boinc (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) Project. Dr. David P. Anderson received an MA in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1985 to 1992 he served on the faculty of the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Department. His research areas include volunteer computing, distributed systems, realtime and multimedia systems, graphics, computer music, and psychometrics applied to learning and aesthetic preference. Since 1998 he has directed SETI@home, a pioneering project in volunteer computing. In 2002 he founded the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project, which develops middleware for volunteer computing. He also directs Bossa (software for distributed thinking) and Bolt (software for web-based training and education). RCE 11: UM Atlas
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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Shawn McKee from The University of Michigan about the Atlas (altas.ch) detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/) at Cern. Panda Information: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/Panda Shawn McKee (Ph.D., UM 1991) is a high-energy astrophysicist and research scientist at the University of Michigan. He is currently a member of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His work has been central to advancing computing technology to address the simulation and data analysis requirements of ATLAS. ATLAS, with its multi-Petabyte per year data flow, represents a significant challenge for even the existing computing infrastructure of 2009. Since 2006, Shawn has been the Director of the ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 (AGLT2) computing center, located at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, one of five such centers in the US providing computing resources to support ATLAS simulation and data analysis. In 2001, he was appointed Network Project Manager for US ATLAS to plan for and develop the necessary network environment to support the US ATLAS computing model. He is co-chair of the High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) Internet2 Working Group, which is addressing similar problems in the context of all of high-energy and nuclear physics experiments. More Articles... |
