Petascale System Management Experiences

Petascale HPC systems are among the largest systems in the world. Intrepid, one such system, is a 40,000 node, 556 teraflop Blue Gene/P system that has been deployed at Argonne National Laboratory. In this paper, we provide some background about the system and our administration experiences. In particular, due to the scale of the system, we have faced a variety of issues, some surprising to us, that are not common in the commodity world. We discuss our expectations, these issues, and approaches we have used to address them.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LISA
• Authors: Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Cory Lueninghoener, Andrew Cherry, Susan Coghlan, William Scullin
• Keywords: Argonne National Laboratory, LISA 2008, Operating System, Petascale HPC Systems, Teraflop Blue Gene/p