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Supercomputer Services Group
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The Supercomputer Services Group (SSG) of the High-End Services Section (HSS) is responsible for managing the production NCAR supercomputer holdings that are under the stewardship of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL).
The five full-time SSG software engineers (and one student assistant) currently manage eight production clusters: two IBM POWER5, three IBM POWER4, two IBM Linux, and one Aspen Systems Linux. In total, there are over 400 nodes/operating system images, four different interconnect architectures, three different operating system types, and two different storage subsystems.
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- installation
- certification
- configuration
- administration
- maintenance
- security
- training
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- collaboration
- documentation
- performance tuning
- subsystem augmentation
- system software porting
- system tool development
- end-user tool development
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SSG is also responsible for software development and deployment in the areas of: resource management & batch job scheduling, system accounting, system health and security monitoring, and storage allocation and management.
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Mission
To provide best-in-class supercomputing services to NCAR and the 70+ UCAR member universities worldwide.
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Vision
- To provide a fully-integrated, grid-enabled, self-monitoring, and self-healing supercomputer infrastructure with a consistent, intuitive end-user environment.
- To strike a balance between pushing the envelope with new applications, methodologies, and tools while maintaining a stable and reliable production infrastructure.
- To strive for world-class customer service, minimal service interruptions, and worldwide collaboration and technology transfer.
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