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== Completed section ==
 
== Completed section ==

Revision as of 10:27, 27 November 2012

Benchmarking

  • Openfoam benchmarking (ARM vs Sandy bridge)#
    • Single node tests
    • OpenMPI for full 12/48 calx nodes
  • Blender, open source rendering. To get a feel for ARM vs Intel on media projects
  • jbench (see what the JVM performance is like on a system, ejre vs openjdk)
  • Itaru (BWA genome stuff) pBWA doesnt scale (needs 12 more systems)
  • justonedb guys, mysql vs postgres vs justonedb with their data sets (bloom analytics software) Peter
  • spec cpu and hepspec on arm
    • DP to email spec
  • openmpi 1.6 results for all tests
    • JH IMB tests, pingpong np=2, all tests 2 nodes, 4 nodes, 8 nodes
  • linpack HPL

Software testing

  • Hadoop terasort on v1.0.3 apache
  • Install / tests CDH (Cloudera distribution of hadoop)
  • JH Intel e3-1220L-v2 ivy bridge, sysbench power/performance tests
  • JH cxmanage on the headnode, and on wiki
  • VDI and spice for ubuntu / fedora, test on ARM, instructions on wiki
  • Openstack, newest release with dashboard
  • ScaleIO to port software to ARM (source and rebuild)
  • Zettaset
    • DP put in touch with UK partner #
  • Ubuntu stuff to do:
    • MaaS
    • JuJu
    • Landscape
    • apt-proxy

Hardware Bits

  • Server range for Viglen
    • Stage 1: Hardware on SB similar to current range
    • Stage 2: Additional storage products for schools (cheap NAS / iSCSI solution) to compete against hitachi
    • Stage 3: Solutions, cloud, vmware?

Mike TODO List

  • Cobbler Puppet - Updated 26th October
    • Puppet master installed on pxe
    • cobbler auto sign and install enabaled
    • NEEDS REPO ADDING TO COBBLER


  • Carma / K20
    • NEEDS CROSS COMPILER
    • K20 System currently in India


  • Cancer Reaserch System
    • Get in touch with Shun - white paper for Ian
    • Needs Installing - keep cat up to date
    • Current issue with kernel panic!!
    • XFS file system
  • Vmware
    • 6 blades Installed
    • IPMI issue on the other four


  • 4U viridis
    • Looking at open stack
    • keyston installed
    • glance has an issue with permissions


  • 2U Viridis
    • calx21 needs root password resetting
    • calx 3 / 15 are running slow
  • MFU
    • Installed on compute003
    • Need to install on more node

Completed section

  • Provisioning tests
    • PCM to Node downstairs - OK
    • Rocks to Node in Lab - OK