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High Performance Computing Center at JINR 1997
LCTA Status Report Release 1, 1997
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• Telecommunication systems
• External communication channels (INTERNET)
• High-speed JINR Backbone
• Systems for powerful computations and mass data
  processing
• General High-performance server
• Clusters of workstations of JINR laboratories
  and experiments
• Computing farms (PC-farms)
• Data storage system
• File servers system based on AFS
• Mass storage system
• Information servers and database servers
• Software support systems
• System for application creation and
  maintenance
• Visualization systems.

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Route Server
Auxiliary Network Manager
Network Manager
155 Mb/s
155 Mb/s
ATM Switch 1 2
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10-100 Mb/s
10-100 Mb/s
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Statistics for Convex
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A Computing Farm to Solve the Problems of
Simulation and Homogeneous Physical Data Mass
Processing The main goal to construct at
JINR the PC-farm with a new possibilities of
physical experiments simulation, mass data
processing and analysis The main result there
will be the real possibility of equal in rights
participation of JINR physicist in the data
analysis of the large international
experimental programs in high energy physics The
main requests CPU Time (on Pentium 200)
gt109 s/year RAM Memory on processor up to
128 Mb HDD Memory 200 - 500 Gb Mass
Storage System 4 - 12 DLT The reason of
choice A most simple and cheap solution for
very special problems in high energy
physics Customers Laboratory of Particle
Physics Laboratory of High Energy Physics
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Two stages of the Project realization 1.
PC-farm segment 32 Pentium Pro 200 Processors
(4 - for interactive using) (2 years) 128 Mb
per processor 200 Gb HDD memory (RAID and
SCSI) 4 DLT 100 Mbit Ethernet Switch with
16 ports OS "Solaris x86 v.2.6" or
Linux Andrew File System (AFS) Network
Queue System (NQS) Fortran, C. The total
cost of this stage is 187,600 USD. Different
financial sources are needed to realize this
stage of the project the Russia Ministry of
Science and Technologies subprogram
"Perspective information technologies" fund,
budget of JINR, special funds of physical
collaboration. 2. Full PC-farm 128 Pentium
Processors (8 - for interactive using) (3-4
years) 128 - 256 Mb per Processor 500 Gb HDD
Mary Mass Storage System with 12 DLT new
Ethernet Technology new Software
Technology. An estimation total cost of this
stage equipment is about 260,000 USD. The
additional financial sources and funds are needed.
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SUN/SPARC CLUSTER at JINR as OS SOLARIS
ENVIRONMENT SERVER Cluster
ultra.jinr.dubna.su is working under OS Solaris
2.5.1 Site-licenses for JINR on
Fortran F77-4.0 and C-4.1 provide all JINR
specialists complete conditions in OS Solaris
environment for their work including the usage
of current versions of CERNLIB
Site-licenses on F77-4.0 and C-4.1 are
available for any JINR hosts working under
OS Solaris The latest versions of many FSF/GNU
products widely used in JINR are installed at
cluster in a proper way and can be used for
installation at any other JINR hosts working
under OS Solaris
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CMS CLUSTER at JINR Hardware 3
SPARC-stations ( 140 Ultra SPARC station and two
SPARC-stations-20) Disk Space
24 GB Software OS Solaris 2.5.1,
C-4.0, C-4.1, F77-4.0 compilers Number of
users 37 The computational environment is the
same as at the CERN CMS cluster
(cms.cern.ch) CMS cluster at JINR
supports both the tasks of
simulation and data processing
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• MAIN DATA BASES
• 1. "Physics Information Servers and Data Bases"
• Accelerators DB
• 2. JINR Library Reference DB system
• 3. DB for IP addresses of JINR
• 4. Russian WWW-Servers DB
• 5. Central services DB for administrative
  economic activities
• Publishing Department DB
• STAFF
• Topical Plan
• Etc.

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• GENERAL WWW SUPPORT
• "Physics Information Servers and Data Bases"
• Physics Servers and Services around the World
  give access to Physics Encyclopedia, Educational
  Resources, News in Physics, Data and Tables on
  Physical Constants et cetera.
• Physics Institutions around the World.
• Physics Conferences, Workshops and Summer
  Schools.
• Publishing Offices home pages which give access
  to book and journal catalogs, their tables of
  contents and abstracts of articles, etc
• High Energy Physics(HEP) section includes current
  news, educational materials, information about
  HEP centers, programs and service packages on
  data analysis and modelling, detector simulation,
  event generators etc.
• Low and Medium Energy Physics
• CMS-RDMS Web site
• Main JINR Web site
• General INFO
• Main documents
• Journal "JINR Rapid Communications"
• Newspaper "DUBNA"
• JINR Information Bulletin
• JINR Scientific Programme for the Years 1997 -
  1999
• Etc.
• LCTA main Web site

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RDMS CMS WWW-SERVER CMS informational system
is heavily based on the world-wide web (WWW)
Web-server http//sunct2.jinr.dubna.su was
designed at LCTA and contains information on RDMS
CMS collaboration activities This web-server
was adopted as an official web-server of RDMS CMS
collaboration by the RDMS CMS Collaboration Board
in June, 1997 Now there references on RDMS CMS
web-server http//sunct2.jinr.dubna.su from CERN
CMS web-servers CMSDOC and CMSINFO LCTA is
responsible for the further development and
support of RDMS CMS web-server
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PARTICIPATION IN RUSSIAN INTERDEPARTMENTAL
PROGRAMMES 1."Creation of National Network of
Telecommunications for Science and Higher
Schools" - development of the network RBNet and
earth channels (section of the Programme 3.3.2.
jointly with ROSNIIROS) - development of the
network RUHep - "Dubna-Moscow" link creation
(jointly with the Research Institute for Nuclear
Physics MSU) - head organization within the
project BAPHYS -creation of a data base network
for nuclear physics. 2. Working out an
interdepartmental programme "Creation of
high-performance computer centres in Russia"
(funds have been allocated for organization of
HPCC at JINR). 3. A project "A computing farm
for solving the problems of modeling and mass
processing of homogeneous physical information"
has been worked out for participation in the
programme "Advanced Information Technologies".
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• PLAN FOR THE YEAR 1998
• To finish the ATM-project on creation of the
  ATM-based backbones in all JINR laboratories.
• To provide a reliable operation of the external
  communication links by means of a tender
  selection of the service-provider.
• The most reasonable strategy for development of
  external computer communications for JINR, in
  view of the limited funds, involves aid in
  solving the question on creation of a node for a
  high-speed Europe Backbone (project TEN34) in
  Moscow, as well as a high-speed communication
  link to the USA in frames of projects on the
  development of the national network of computer
  telecommunications for science and higher
  schools.
• To start up the HPCC at JINR at its first
  stage -SPP200DLT robotmass memory system.
• To realize a first step in creation of the
  computing farm.
• To work out a project on organizing an
  electronic complex for message exchange within
  JINR by using a unified data base of all
  registered JINR users.
• To install an electronic libraries server,
  based on HPC servers (full-text data bases,
  photo-archive data bases, physical data bases
  etc.)
• To design a centralized Backup system for
  general JINR servers by using the HPC facilities.
• To pursue a policy of software standardization
  and licensing for creation of workplaces for
  users of the JINR networking informational-computa
  tional infrastructure(NICE95/NT).
• Further development of algorithms and methods
  for researches under way at JINR in the field of
  nuclear physics.

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Development Strategy Link to Europe/USA from 2
Mbps to 155 Mbps JINR LAN Full transfer to
ATM Mass Storage From Gbytes to
Petabytes Tele-videoconferences At least on room
in each Laboratory PC-Farms for large
experiments ATLAS, CMS, STAR etc. High-performanc
e Computing (nonbudgetary sources) OO,
CASE-tools Standard-Software, algorithms and
methods
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In according to Memorandum of Understanding of
collaboration between the Laboratory of Computing
Techniques and Automation of the Joint Institute
for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia and the
SPS/LEP Division of the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland during 1997
year has been done 1. TDM Monitoring System
http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/cgi-bi
n/tdm\_protect.vi 2. MOPOS timing diagnostics
system http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/e
xamples/ex\_mopos.html 3. LabVIEW on the WEB
http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/ 4.
TCP/IP based Message Handler (LV\_mhm)
http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/others/rem\_exec.html
5. Synchronisation of LabView application
http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/sync/LV\_sync.html
with an accelerator's cycle 6. An
Object-Oriented technology in
http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/others/LV\_oop.html
LabVIEW programming (report
ICALEPS'97 Beijing 1-7.11.1997) Future
developments and projects on 1998 year (a few
points has been done now) 1. BEAM LOSS
MONITORING System http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/e
xamples/BML.html 2. COMMON LABVIEW ENVIRONMENT
http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/others/LV\_slops.html
for the operational machines 3. Evaluation
of ACE http//hpslz24.cern.ch8080/others/LV\_a
ce.html