Scope
Goals: Techlab is an IT project aiming at improving the efficiency of the computing architecture and making better utilisation of the processors available today.
Communication and support
Mailing lists are available:
| Area of expertise |
Contact |
| Systems management |
Aritz Brosa |
| Resources management |
Bernd Panzer-Steindel |
| Project Leader |
Romain Wartel |
Techlab systems are operated as evolving, test systems, on a best effort basis, and must not be used for production work or with sensitive data. Hosts are reinstalled on a regular basis and user data is permanently deleted at the end of each test slot.
Under some conditions and subject to availability, it may be possible to loan a Techlab system for longer periods, for example to pilot a build system on new platforms.
Service issues should be reported to
techlab-discuss@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch.
Techlab systems
Techlab provides a test environment aimed at improving the efficiency and performance that can be gained from modern hardware and optimised software (applications, compilers, drivers and operating systems).
What Do I Need?
Click here if you have doubts about what kind of system do you really need ->
Booking
The systems are made available to each user for a limited period of time and can be reserved via
techlab-request@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch.
In your request, please specify:
- The name of your project/experiment
- A brief description of your project, including why accessing Techlab systems would be beneficial and what you hope to achieve
- The specifications of the Techlab system(s) you would like to request access to
- The expected duration of the reservation
- Your CERN username and SSH public key
At any time, we would really appreciate to hear what you have achieved or learnt using the Techlab systems, how they were useful to you, and what we could do to provide a better environment for you.
Current Techlab systems
| Hardware type |
Specs summary |
HEP-SPEC06 |
OS & Kernel |
Expected availability |
| iWARP 10Gb |
60 nodes with 10 Gb iWARP |
|
SLC 6.4 2.6.32-358.el6 |
Now |
| Quad Socket |
4 nodes SandyBridge and 4 nodes Westmere-EX |
499.38 |
SLC 6.5 |
Now |
| Intel Xeon Phi |
4 nodes, each with dual socket 8 cores SandyBridge + Xeon Phi 7120P |
|
SLC 6.5 + Intel MPSS 3.1.2 |
Now |
| Nvidia K20X GPU |
4 nodes, each with dual socket 8 cores SandyBridge |
|
SLC 6.5 + CUDA 5.5 Prod Release |
Now |
| AMD GPU |
1 node, dual socket 8 cores SandyBridge + AMD GPU |
|
|
Now |
| Intel Atom S1260 |
45 cartridges |
10.43 |
SLC6 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 gcc 4.4.7 20120313 |
On demand |
| Intel Atom C2000 "Avoton" |
45 cartridges |
53.40 |
SLC6 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 gcc 4.4.7 20120313 |
Now |
| ARM A9 Calxeda SOCs |
4 independent ARM A9-based SoCs cluster |
13.75 |
Fedora 20 (3.11.10-301.fc20.armv7hl) |
Now |
| ARM 64 |
X-Gene 1, 8 cores @ 2.4 GHz, 64 GB of RAM |
56.52 |
Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.13, gcc 4.9.2 |
Now |
| Maxeler Data Flow Engine |
Galava PCI-e DFE card |
|
Maxeler OS |
Now |
| OpenPOWER8 |
IBM Turismo, 4 physical cores (32 logical) @ 3 GHz, 64 GB of RAM |
112.29 |
Fedora 21, kernel 3.18.7-200.fc21.ppc64le, gcc 4.9.2 |
Now |
Techlab systems aims at running a software stack as close as possible to standard production systems, typically Scientific Linux 6 managed with Puppet.
Depending on feasibility and efforts needed, additional tools, or running Fedora Core or modern Linux Kernels may be explored on a subset of the systems.
More details about the Techlab systems are available
here.
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