HPC engineering TODO List

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?