Systems Group

CHPC's system group is comprised of 7 employees who administer the following:

INSCC (our building):

We administer various departmental desktop computers, of which there are over 200 total including Microsoft Windows, various distributions of Linux, and Apple Macintosh. We also administer a variety of departmental home fileservers -- which add up to many terabytes of disk.

Basic Services:

Currently we provide support for web servers, problem tracking, home fileservers, Domain Name Services, system logging services, and others.

HPC:

We currently administer several clusters. The architecture is varied: 32 bit Intel Architecture, 64 bit Alpha Processors, 64 bit AMD Opteron processors. In total there is well over 1500 processors in various clusters.

Other:

CHPC is a leader in meta scheduling between these clusters. Our administrators are very active in the community for compute grid work, and the forward progress of reasonable scheduling on our various clusters.

The systems group chooses a team approach to meet the needs of CHPC users. We designate primary and secondary responsibility areas -- still everyone works together and helps when there are problems. All work in the systems group is considered equally "important" as each administrator impacts the work of others, and the success of the center.