The Design and Usage Model of LLNL Visualization Clusters
February 1, 2008
Dale Southard, Livermore Lab
LLNL has fielded some of the worlds largest dedicated visualization clusters. This presentation will cover the evolution of the LLNL tera-scale visualization hardware and software solutions from a systems (and system administrator's) perspective, including the integration of the support and usage model with the larger compute cluster efforts. The talk will end with a discussion of some future directions and the security implications of those directions.
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About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the primary high-performance computing facility for scientific research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the NERSC Center serves more than 4,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in combustion, climate modeling, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. DOE Office of Science. For more information about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, please visit www.lbl.gov/cs.
