CI Survery: KANREN

Submitted by

Andy Fleming

Total bandwidth to both I2 and commodity Internet:More than 10 gigabits/s. Connected to Kansas R&E State Network
Commodity Internet
- bandwidth 2007
- bandwidth 2008: 1-2.4 gig/s, Kansas R&E State Network
- Number of lines 2007
- Number of lines 2008:2
Internet 2/Abilene bandwidth
- bandwidth 2007
- bandwidth 2008:10 gig/s. State Network Connector to GPN/I2
Did any of your bandwidth come from a consortium?
- 2007:Yes. We are the state R&E network for Kansas. We also connect to Internet2, the GreatPlains Network, the Kan-ED Network (Kansas IDL), and the KanWIN (State of Kansas goverment) network.
- 2008:Yes
Do you have any connections to high performance networks?
- 2007
  - Internet 2:Yes
  - National Lamba Rail
  - Fed Gov research network (DoE ESNet, NASA NREN)
  - State or regional high performance network:Yes
  - Other, please specify
- 2008
  - Internet 2:Yes
  - National Lamba Rail
  - Fed Gov research network (DoE ESNet, NASA NREN)
  - State or regional high performance network:Yes
  - Other, please specify
What speed are your desktop ports connected to the campus?
- 2007:50% 100 meg/s, 50% 1 gig/s. 100% Cat5e
- 2008:50% 100 meg/s, 50% 1 gig/s. 100% Cat5e
Does your institution have any dark fiber (ie, fiber laid, but not in use)?
- 2007
- 2008
What was the distribution (backbone) speed of a campus computer to the campus n

etwork?

- 2007
- 2008
What percentage of campus was covered by wireless?
- 2007:91-100%
- 2008:91-100%
Did your campus provide central High Performance Computing of 1 teraflop or faster?
- 2007:No
- 2008
How many single core computing clusters (and size) did your institution have?
- 2007
- 2008
How many dual core computing clusters (and size) did your institution have?
- 2007
- 2008
How many quad core computing clusters (and size) did your institution have?
- 2007
- 2008
How many 8-core computing clusters (and size) did your institution have?
- 2007
- 2008
Please provide any other information about your campus cluster you'd like.\
How many SMP at 1 teraflop or faster did your institution have?
- 2007
- 2008
What was the theoretical peak performance of your fastest SMP system of 1 teraflop or faster?
- 2007
- 2008
How many PVP systems of at least 1 teraflop did your institution have?
- 2007
- 2008
What was the theoretical peak performance of a)your fastest cluster, and b)all

clusters of 1 teraflop or faster?

- 2007
  - a
  - b
- 2008
  - a
  - b
How many MPP systems of 1 teraflop or faster did your institution administer?
- 2007
- 2008
What was the theoretical peak performance of a)your fastest MPP of 1 teraflop, and b)all MPP of 1 teraflop?
- 2007
  - a
  - b
- 2008
  - a
  - b
What was the theoretical peak performance of all PVP systems of 1 teraflop or faster?
- 2007
- 2008
Did your institution use any HPC for administrative functions?
- 2007
- 2008
How many experimental/emerging computing systems of 1 teraflop of faster did your institution administrate?
- 2007
- 2008
How many special purpose computing systems of 1 teraflop or faster did your institution administer?
- 2007
- 2008
Did any external users use your institution's high performance computing resources?
- 2007
- 2008
What was the total available online storage for centrally administered high performance computing resources?
- 2007
- 2008
Out of the previous question's storage, how much was shared?
- 2007
- 2008
Was any of this online, shared storage used for administrative purposes?
- 2007
- 2008
What was total archival storage available specifically for centrally administrated HPC?
- 2007
- 2008
Was any of the previous archival storage used for university administration?
- 2007
- 2008
What was your total air conditioned machine room space?
- 2007
- 2008
Any additional comments you'd like to make?

Installation of Condor is in process as time allows. Condor pool will be configured to "flock" with any member or peer institutions that wish to.

Installation of Shibboleth is in process as time allows. Shibboleth will be federated with GPN once working.

IP / Network Traffic Flows from state backbone (SFLOWS)

- InMon Traffic Sentinel - network traffic flow analysis and reporting.

- (Kan-ED) Renovo Video Conferencing Scheduling System

- IPv6 Networking and core services (DNS, Routing, etc)

- Linux Cluster, Centralized Authentication, & Storage Administration

- H.323 Video Conferencing

- Novice Experience - Condor, Shibboleth, Open Science Grid