Training on Starfire servers

Munich, 11 November 97 The Regional Computer Centre of the University of Cologne, (RRZK) installed its Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 (Starfire) in the beginning of May. Shortly after this, Sun and the Computer Centre organised a user training. The slides were collected and edited by Tilman Boenniger as a report, also available on video.

At the beginning of May 1997 Sun Microsystems installed at Cologne its Ultra Enterprise 10000 as the computer server, with 40 UltraSPARC processors, 20 GByte memory and about 90 GByte disk space. Peak performance adds up to 20 GFlop/s. It was the first system of its kind worldwide that was delivered to a university. At the Regional Computer Centre of the University of Cologne, a user training on the E10000 was conducted in conjunction with Sun in May 1997, called: "Initial User Training for the Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 'Starfire' at RRZK". Tilmann Boenniger (RRZK) edited and published the Arbeitsbericht RRZK-9703. As most of the slides are in English, this report might be interesting to a broader audience. The report contains copies of the slides of following talks:

  • Hardware Overview of the Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 (German)
  • Solaris Operating System for High Performance Computing (German)
  • Software Development Tools from Sun (German)
  • Tuning and Parallelization Techniques I: Single Processor Tuning (English)
  • Tuning and Parallelization Techniques II: Multi-Threading (English)
  • Tuning and Parallelization Techniques III: MPI, PVM (English)
  • Application Tuning (English)
  • Tuning FP intensive Code (English)
  • The Local Environment for "starfire" Users at RRZK (English)
There are also two video tapes (45 minutes each) available, with the titles:
  • Optimizing Performance on the Sun UltraSPARC (Part 1): - Tuning and Parallelization Techniques I: Single Processor Tuning (English) - Tuning and Parallelization Techniques II: Multi-Threading (English) - Application Tuning (English)
  • Optimizing Performance on the Sun UltraSPARC (Part 2): - Tuning FP intensive Code (English) include the essential parts of the central talks.
The report can be obtained from the RRZK. Please mail to Tilmann Boenniger.
The videos are available through Thomas Guenther, Sun Microsystems GmbH.

Uwe Harms