Canada’s Fastest Supercomputers

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 4, 2009 - 3:53pm
Most powerful University HPC system outside of the US
Date: 
May 26, 2009 - 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: 
MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building
Presenter/Moderator: 
Chris Loken
Presenter/Moderator: 
Daniel Gruner

SciNet is a new High-Performance Computing consortium based at University of Toronto which operates Canada's two fastest supercomputers in a new, highly energy-efficient datacentre. We will discuss the challenges of designing, building and operating a cluster with 30,000 cores and the surrounding infrastructure as well as the software systems.

Credits

Video Production – Christine Nicolau, Cathy Baillie, Kathleen Olmstead
Video Post - Chrisitne Nicolau
Production Manager - James Fiege

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collaboration

Wesley Huang's picture
Submitted by Wesley Huang on June 4, 2009 - 12:48am.

HPC in Canada always get stuck in finding balance of wasting cycles and jam access. collaboration has been talking for years, but never hit the ground. Just like ppls in other cities think about Torontonee, other HPC sites think UofT the same way. Consortiums has been established across the country. After SciNet becomes the last piece in the map, I believe it is time to talk about collaboration and sharing across consortiums to leverage resources, and much more important, people expertise and knowledge (given the case that HPC community in Canada is that small).

Technology wide, is SciNet making use of Rocks or Oscar or else for cluster management. 10G ethernet is just around the corner, does the infrastructure enable the upgrade (rather than wasteful replacement).

The green concept in SciNet is great, can't wait to see how Moak works with it.