HPC Operations Report

May 2009

Victor Hazlewood, CISSP

NICS HPC Systems Group

victor@utk.edu

NICS Highlights

Cray XT5 system, Kraken, is in full production

Fully integrated with AMIE

Installed Science Gateway Kit 2.0

Great feedback from users that Kraken is a useful tool for their research

Plan to support GSI and OTP authentication for future

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NICS Kraken Usage Since August

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Date % Utilization Jobs Billed Usage Wallclock UsageHours

Available

Aug-08 23 1,791 2,991,048 2,991,048 11,983,872

Sep-08 52 2,812 5,718,139 6,615,309 12,994,560

Oct-08 61 5,376 6,093,607 7,135,047 13,427,712

Nov-08 52 5,484 5,977,761 6,404,730 12,994,560

Dec-08 59 4,889 5,914,079 7,428,060 13,427,712

Jan-09 50 11,234 4,534,189 6,355,834 13,427,712

Feb-09 59 - 44 10,507 15,862,548 21,262,389 56,512,512

Mar-09 45 - 67 13,646 25,643,328 33,667,464 62,567,424

Apr-09 55 20,502 21,759,713 24,210,216 47,554,560

May-09 70 22,509 27,258,196 28,398,011 49,139,712

Jun-09   1,161 1,114,484 1,121,156 47,554,560

Kraken Stats by Node Size

Size # of Jobs Hours Charged Hours Used % Hours Used% Hours Charged

Kraken Cray XT5 - 8 cpus per node

0 - 63 Nodes 19,274 3,195,777 3,583,032 13 12

64 - 127 Nodes 1,078 1,992,035 2,151,046 8 7

128 - 255 Nodes 851 4,619,856 4,719,975 17 17

256 - 511 Nodes 774 4,242,782 4,569,414 16 16

512 - 1023 Nodes 273 2,870,000 2,870,430 10 11

1024 - 2047 Nodes 142 2,518,178 2,648,796 9 9

2048 - 4095 Nodes 77 4,769,180 4,769,180 17 17

4096 - 8191 Nodes 25 3,029,215 3,064,963 11 11

8192 - 8256 Nodes 15 21,174 21,174 0 0

Totals 22,509 27,258,196 28,398,011 100% 100%

Job Mix

Processors

CPU Hours

Processor Count Color

Job Length in Hours

NICS User Accounts and Projects

User Logins and Types of Logins

HPSS Usage