Cplant™: World’s Fastest Linux
Clusters
Presentation to Dartmouth College
Outline
Massively Parallel
Processors (MPPs)
Sandia/Univ. of New Mexico
OS (SUNMOS)
Puma
Disadvantages of MPPs
Commodity Clusters
Disadvantages of Clusters
Distributed & Parallel
Systems
Cplant Strategy
Cplant™ Metaphors
Why Cplant™?
Cplant™ Approach
Portals
Conceptual Partition Model
System Support Hierarchy
Scalable Unit
Hardware Management
“Virtual Machines”
Phase I - Prototype (Hawaii)
Phase II - Production
(Alaska)
Phase III- Production
(Siberia)
CplantTM 2000:
Antarctica
Phase IV: Antarctica
CplantTM Machines
User View
Compile Environment
Runtime Environment
Runtime Environment (cont’d)
Runtime Environment (cont’d)
Runtime Environment (cont’d)
Runtime Environment (conc’d)
Parallel I/O
Parallel I/O Model
Parallel I/O Path and Data
Caches
Parallel I/O API
Cplant™ Performance
Slide 38
Slide 39
CTH Grind Time
Applications Work In
Progress
Applications Work In
Progress
Near-Term Plans
Long-Term Plans
Cplant™ Contributors