Last update:
Apr 1, 2000
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RHIC Computing Facility Processing System
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Bruce Gibbard,
Terence Healy,
Shigeki Misawa,
Timothy Sailer,
Thomas Throwe
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Speaker:
Bruce Gibbard
The RHIC Computing Facility employees a combination of SUN/Solaris Servers
and Intel/Linux based computers to perform the production processing of
RHIC data. Currently installed in this processing subsystem are 8 Sun
Enterprise servers with a total of 32 CPU's and 214 Intel systems with a
total of 448 CPU's, producing a total capacity of 7500 SPECint95. The
network infrastructure for the facility is switched Fast and Gigabit
Ethernet with an extended frame Gigabit protocol used for inter-server
transfers. A total of 10 TBytes of primarily Fibre Channel connected RAID
disk is attached to these systems. Resource allocation is done by a
combination of the commercial product LSF and in-house developed job flow
management software. Current installed capacities are adequate for first
year RHIC operations but will be required to grow by factors of 2 - 4 to
satisfy year 2001 needs. Additional details of the systems, including
scalability and ease of management aspects of their administration and
control software, are presented. Underlying design philosophies are
discussed as are performance characteristics observed during stress test
and Mock Data Challenge exercises.
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