NGS CARMEN NGSII Cluster

The Centre for Parallel Computing at  School of Informatics , University of Westminster is a partner site of the National Grid Service (NGS). The UK National Grid Service (NGS) is the core UK eScience Grid, intended for the production use of computational and data Grid resources. NGS is supported by JISC and EPSRC.

University of Westminster Resources

Cluster head nodes/Grid nodes/Portal nodes:

• 18 IBM x3455 2xDual AMD Opteron 2281 (72 Cores) with 4GB memory
• Each with 2x80Gb hard drives (mirrored), Infiniband adapter fitted and IPMI2

Compute nodes:

• 64 x IBM x3455 2xDual core AMD Opteron 2218 (256 Cores with 4GB memory
• Each with 80Gb hard drive, Infiniband adapter fitted and IPMI2

Data:

• 2 x IBM System Storage DS4200, 4Gbps fiber channel
• 2 x IBM SAN16B 16 port Fibre Switch
• 2 x 16 500GB SATA2 hard drives (11TB usable)
• 2 x IBM eServer x346, 1x Intel Xeon Dual core 2.8GHz EM64T processor, 2x 36GB SCSI 10K rpm Hard Drives (Mirrored), Voltaire Infiniband
• 4 x Qlogic Single Channel Fibre HBA (4Gb), PCIx
• Cisco 10Gbs Infiniband switches(for high-performance interconnection)
• Gigabit switches (for admin)

Power:

• UPS: 60KVA / 3 phase with 30mn runtime @ 30KVA, Internal and external bypass
• Intelligent PDU for powering nodes in sequence

Cooling:

• 2 x Airdale 30KW units
• 3 x wall mounted 10KW units for backup

Service Level Definition (SLD)

The SLD is for the CARMEN cluster (ngs.wmin.ac.uk) is defined here

Service Inclusions

Click here for details of service inclusions on the NGS Cluster at University of Westminster.

Grid Middleware

Click here for details of grid middleware available on the NGS Cluster at University of Westminster.

Software for Development

Click here for details of software for developing and running programs avaliable on the NGS Cluster at University of Westminster.

Applications

Click here for details of applications available on the NGS Cluster at University of Westminster.

Usage monitor

http://ganglia.ngs.wmin.ac.uk/

Contact Information

For more information on Westminster resources please contact:
Technical Support:         support@grid-support.ac.uk
Web page master:         Noam Weingarten
Further contacts:           Tamas Kiss, Gabor Terstyanszky

P-Grade Portal

The NGS P-GRADE Portal offers a rich environment for executing and monitoring computational jobs on the NGS and EGEE resources. In addition, it supports the graphical development, execution and visualization of workflows composed of sequential and parallel jobs on NGS and EGEE resources. The NGS P-GRADE portal is based on the P-GRADE portal, which is the official portal of several European production Grids, for example: SEE-Grid, Hun-Grid, EGEE and VOCE. The NGS P-GRADE portal has been developed collaboratively by the Center for Parallel Computing at the University of Westminster and the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory of the MTA SZTAKI Research Institute. The Portal service is operated by the University of Westminster. 

GEMLCA

GEMLCA is a general solution in order to deploy existing legacy code applications written in any programming language as a Grid service

• without modifying or even requiring access to the legacy code (source or binary)
• without any real user effort.