AIR Resource Scheduling and Usage Tracking for 2005

The purpose of this page is to track the scheduling and usage of the resources from the AIR-Group, notably the Van Gogh and Rembrandt clusters and associated network resources.

A new page has been created for the resource scheduling for 2006: SNEResourcesScheduling2006

Scheduling period

The time period we are covering in this page is from Apr. 1 2005 to the end of the year.
In particular we are interesting in the usage during the two main events of the year: iGrid2005 and SC2005:

• iGrid2005 will be held at USCD (San Diego, CA) from Sep. 26 to Sep. 29 2005
• SC2005 will be held in Seattle, WA from Nov.12 to Nov.18 2005

Resources

There are two clusters that can be reserved:

• Vangogh cluster (more information∞)
• Rembrandt cluster (more information∞)

Network equipment

There are two network switches, with the following 10GE ports:

• Force10 E600, with 4 LANPHY and 2 WANPHY interfaces
• Nortel Passport 8010, with 6 LANPHY interfaces

The available ports for host connections are as of Jun.1 2005:

• Force10: 3 LANPHY interfaces
• Passport8010: 7LANPHY interfaces

Conditions

Please note that usage of our resources is bound to conditions you must agree with:

• the resources are provided as is. We try best effort to help out with special demands but we can not give any guarantee.
• we set priorities to requests. This means that higher priority requests ultimately can pre-emt a lower priority request when reasonable scheduling fails.
• we require to be recognized in publications and press releases based on work where our resources were used.
• we give no guarantee whatsoever on software, data, installations, user accounts, etc. left on our systems. So please copy results to your own environment when possible. For example it is entirely thinkable that a next user reformats the 20 TeraByte disk array.

Read the above and then if you agree send your request to: to-be-filled-in<at>science.uva.nl
Lightpath requests need to be send to: netmaster-optical<at>surfnet.nl

Priorities

Vangogh cluster

The following is the table showing the first two outstanding reservations for a resource.
Note that if higher priority request come up this can be re-arranged.

NODE	REQUEST	START-DATE	END_DATE	NEXT-REQUEST
vangogh0	-	-	-	-
vangogh1	-	-	-	-
vangogh2	-	-	-	-
vangogh3	-	-	-	-
vangogh4	-	-	-	-
vangogh5	-	-	-	-
vangogh6	-	-	-	-
vangogh7	-	-	-	-
vangogh8	-	-	-	-

Rembrandt cluster

The following is the table showing the first two outstanding reservations for a resource.
Note that if higher priority request come up this can be re-arranged.

NODE	REQUEST	START-DATE	END_DATE	NEXT-REQUEST
rembrandt0	-	-	-	-
rembrandt1	Request 8.b	Sep.1 2005	ongoing
rembrandt2	Request 8.b	Sep.1 2005	ongoing
rembrandt3	Request 1.b	Aug.1 2005	end of Dec.
rembrandt4	Request 1.b	Aug.1 2005	end of Dec.
rembrandt5	Request 1.b	Aug.1 2005	end of Dec.
rembrandt6	Request 15	Oct.23	Jan. 31 2006
rembrandt7	Request 15	Oct.23	Jan. 31 2006
rembrandt8	Request 15	Oct.23	Jan. 31 2006

Current requests

REQUEST	PRIORITY	REQUESTOR	TIMEFRAME	DETAILS	REMBRANDT RESOURCES	VANGOGH RESOURCES	NOTES
1.b	70	Kors Bos	Aug.1 <->Aug.31 (option on 30 Sep.) 2005	Continuation of SC3 tests. Extension of request1	Rembrandt3,4,5	-	Nodes are needed till the end of December
8.b	100	Paola/Hans +JPVerlders	August	test of SURFnet6	Rembrandt6 &7	-	-
14	70	Simon Portegies Zwart		DAS-3	-	-	Nodes to test GRAPE PCI card
15	100	Leon	SC|05	Token-based tests	Rembrandt6/7/8	-	Need three nodes for Intel switch tests

Request contacts

REQUEST	CONTACT PERSON	ORGANIZATION	EMAIL ADDRESS
1	Kors Bos	NIKHEF/SARA	tier1-ams@sara.nl
8	Paola Grosso	UvA AIR	grosso@science.uva.nl
14	Simon Portegies Zwart	UvA/astro	spz@science.uva.nl
15	Leon Gommans	UvA/AIR	gommans@scicence.uva.nl

Old requests

REQUEST	PRIORITY	REQUESTOR	TIMEFRAME	DETAILS	REMBRANDT RESOURCES	VANGOGH RESOURCES	NOTES	EMAIL
2	60	LAC/UIC	not specified	Loan of node (with 10GE) for Teraflow testbed	Rembrandt6	-	Need S2IO/Neterion NIC	mike@lac.uic.edu
3	100	Freek/Jeroen	iGrid'05	Demo NL104	-	VanGogh7-8	-	fdijkstr@science.uva.nl
4	60	EVL (viz. people)	-	TeraScale	-		but I think they first need 4x 1 GE links before they can use it (don't know the status)	darkman@evl.uic.edu
5		Joe Mambretti	iGrid2005	demo US108		Vangogh3-4	Assigning them two nodes - one additional node assigned on Sep.21 (vangogh1)	j-mambretti@northwestern.edu and fyeh
5.b		Joe Mambretti	iGrid2005	demo US109		Vangogh3-4	They are using the same two nodes as request 5, with account name teraflow1 and teraflow2	j-mambretti@northwestern.edu and fyeh
6	60/100	Alan Verlo (STARLight) & Paola/Hans	Apr.15 2005 - May 30 2005	Test of new Ams-Chi link and test of Chelsio card in trans-oceanic transfers	Rembrandt7	-	-	darkman@evl.uic.edu
7	60	Nut Taesombut	iGrid2005	demo US116	Rembrandt7-8		Request for 4-6 cluster nodes with 30GByte disk space	nut@cs.ucsd.edu
8	100	Paola/Hans +JPVerlders	mid April/end May	initial test of SURFnet6	Rembrandt2	-	-	grosso@science.uva.nl
9	60	Les Cottrell	May-beginning July	TCP-stack comparison	-	vangogh1-2	-	cottrell@slac.stanford.edu
10	70	Bram Stolk	Jul 1 - Oct 1	iGrid2005 demo	-	-	requested 28 gigabit copper ports on Force10	bram@sara.nl
11	100	Bas	iGrid05 and SC|05	Demo NL101& Demo NL103	-	Vangogh5-6	Two nodes for VM turntable demo	wan@science.uva.nl
12	60	Leping Yin	iGrid05	Demo US124	-	2 nodes:vangogh2 and rembrandt5	Access to at least 2 nodes, and OXC.	lyin2@uic.edu
13	60	Marcus Thiebaux	iGrid05	Demo US128	-	-	Need Globus 2.4.3 and scheduler (PBS or LSF)	thiebaux@ISI.EDU
16	100	Paola	SC|05	Resource Broekering demo	-	Vangogh3 and vangogh4	Will use two nodes for demonstration of resource brokering	grosso@science.uva.nl