The Cluster Challenge: 6 Students, 26 Amps, 44 Hours

摘要: The inaugural Cluster Challenge competition at the Super- computing 2007 conference saw six teams, each with undergraduate students, compete to complete a computational science workload within 44 hours. HPCC benchmarks, GAMESS, POP, and POV-Ray ap- plications formed workload. One constraint on cluster was that it had draw less than 26 amps total 120 volts. University of Alberta team placed first in challenge. We describe our SGI Linux-based environment, experi- ences hardware software preparation for challenge, experiences during challenge itself. To seasoned adminis- trators users, many observations are familiar, but is an interesting data point state (both good bad) technology (hardware software).