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Computing has become the third pillar of science and engineering, complementing the traditional activities of theory and experimentation. As a result, adequate computing capabilities are as central a resource at premiere research universities like Berkeley as are libraries and laboratories. Furthermore, information processing activities, such as data base indexing and financial modeling, are becoming more computationally and I/O intensive and require high performance computing facilities. The UC Berkeley Millennium project aims to develop and deploy a hierarchical campus-wide "cluster of clusters" to support advanced applications in scientific computing, simulation, and modelling. Millennium has delivered 24990 work units in about 45 CPU years of compute power to the SETI project. The project is the #4 university contributor. Millennium is a project of the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley.
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February 23rd, 2000 Philip Buonadonna was awarded the Best Poster Award at the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) All Hands Meeting 2000 held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. His poster, entitled Cluster Network I/O, proposed solutions for high-performance, scalable communication on commodity-node distributed systems.
December 6, 1999 Satoshi Matsuoka, a professor from Tokyo Institute of Technology, will be visiting. Matt Welsh had the opportunity to work with Mr. Matsuoka and his group on the OpenJIT project in Japan over the summer. The webpage for Mr. Matsuoka's lab can be found at: http://matsu-www.is.titech.ac.jp/. December 2, 1999 A fast implementation of MPI has been installed. It uses the GM 1.1.1 fast communication layer and is integrated with the REXEC remote execution system. Details on how to get started (includes a simple hello-world.c example) using MPI on Millennium can be found here. December 2, 1999 Myrinet networks have been installed on both the priced (mm1 to mm14) and unpriced (mm15 to mm28) clusters. Myricom's GM 1.1.1 is the communication layer (32 us RTT, 59.5 MB/s pt-to-pt BW). Each node has a single LANai 7.2 NIC. Both clusters are each connected on their own 16-port switch. November 15, 1999 The Millennium Group heads to Portland for SC '99. May 7, 1999 The linux kernel on mm3-mm16 has been changed. They all have the expanded shared memory segments now. The systems have been rebooted and are ready for use. April 16, 1999 Advanced program for the 1999 ACM Java Grande Conference April 12, 1999 Article on corporate IT support spotlighting Beowulf, Millennium, and the role of Linux. Matt Welsh is featured in the article.
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