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Pay as You Go Supercomputing: Does it Work?
University of Manchester
Computing at Manchester
Manchester Computer Innovations
Manchester Computing provides services to:
Manchester Computing provides services to:
Supercomputing
History of HPC in UK Academia
1965: Flowers Report
History of Manchester
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1977: 2nd ëJoint Systemí installed (CDC 7600 + ICL 1904S)
1987: Amdahl 5890-300 replaces 7600s & Amdahl 470.
1988: Amdahl VP1200 (64Mb memory, 576 Mflops).
1993: Fujitsu VPX 240 replaces VP 1200 (thirty two times
the memory, four times as fast, approx 2.2 GFlops
1998
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Observations
Observations
HPCí97
CSAR & CfS: Who and What?
The Bosses
CSC & SGI take financial risk and buy machine
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Management Structure
How it works
CSAR Resources
Trading Pool
Capacity Plans
Risk Transfer
Maintaining a World-Class Service
How Do We Get Paid?
Baseline
Over 40 projects
CPARS
Performance
Does it work?
200 PE Upgrade
The Future
Acknowledgements
Contact Information
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