[Crib-list] Speaker: ALBERT REUTHER (MIT-Lincoln Lab) - Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar (CRIBB) - Fri. Nov. 1st, 2013 -- TIME: 12:00 Noon in Room 32-141 (Stata)

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		   COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013
TIME:		12:00 Noon
LOCATIONL	Building 32, Room 141   (Stata Center)

 		Pizza and beverages at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-141


TOPIC:		MIT SuperCloud: HPC, Clouds,
 		and Databases for Diverse Rapid Prototyping


SPEAKER:	ALBERT REUTHER
 		Computing and Analytics Group
 		MIT-Lincoln Laboratory

ABSTRACT:

The supercomputing and enterprise computing arenas come from very different 
lineages.  However, the advent of commodity computing servers has brought the 
two arenas closer than they have ever been.  Within enterprise computing, 
commodity computing servers have resulted in the development of a wide range 
of new cloud capabilities: elastic computing, virtualization, and data 
hosting.  Similarly, the supercomputing community has developed new 
capabilities in heterogeneous, massively parallel hardware and software. 
Merging the benefits of enterprise clouds and supercomputing has been a 
challenging goal.  Significant effort has been expended in trying to deploy 
supercomputing capabilities on cloud computing systems.  These efforts have 
resulted in unreliable, low-performance solutions, which requires enormous 
expertise to maintain.

Over the past ten years, the LLGrid at MIT Lincoln Laboratory has evolved 
from a four-node prototype cluster running single-user MatlabMPI jobs to a 
constellation of systems serving well over 300 users each year.  LLGrid was 
developed to enable the rapid prototyping computational needs of MIT Lincoln 
Laboratory, providing interactive, on-demand parallel and distributed 
simulation, data processing, and algorithm exploration and development 
capabilities across a wide range of DoD mission areas including ballistic 
missile defense, radar digital signal processing algorithm development, 
aircraft collision avoidance algorithm verification, communication channel 
reliability modeling, and satellite propagation simulations.  With this goal 
in mind, the LLGrid team continues to explore novel ways to accommodate 
various high performance computing requirements and needs on shared HPC 
hardware systems.  MIT SuperCloud provides a novel solution to the problem of 
merging enterprise cloud and supercomputing technology.  More specifically, 
LLSuperCloud reverses the traditional paradigm of attempting to deploy 
supercomputing capabilities on a cloud and instead deploys cloud capabilities 
on a supercomputer.  The result is a system that can handle heterogeneous, 
massively parallel workloads while also providing high performance elastic 
computing, virtualization, and databases.  The benefits of LLSuperCloud are 
highlighted using a mixed workload of C MPI, parallel MATLAB, Java, 
databases, and virtualized web services.

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