News

• May 7th, 2002
  New execution environment. Instead of using rexec, try using gexec. Documentation for gexec is here. We will be phasing out rexec in the coming month.
• April 29th, 2002
  CITRIS Itanium Pilot Cluster Ganglia Monitor
• April 29th, 2002
  Oceanstore Cluster Ganglia Monitor
• April 04th, 2002
  Raw Millennium usage statistics for the months of Feb-2002 and Mar-2002
• March 11th, 2002
  We are fully back online following a campus-wide power outage. There were no major losses in the cluster.
• February 27th, 2002
  zero - a new webserver detailing network topology, future growth, and millennium network statistics.
• December 19th, 2001
  a new more accurate network topology
• September 12th, 2001
  Millennium hosts website to help people find loved ones in the aftermath of tuesday's tragic events.
• August 17th, 2001
  ky v2.0 is now available. Your requests have not fallen through the cracks. You can now copy, delete, retrieve and check on the files you have tranfered using ky.
• April 20th, 2001
  EECS Millennium Cluster has been upgraded to the RedHat 7 Installation and the 2.4.1 kernel.
• March 16th, 2001
  Myrinet 2000 equipment is here. It has been installed on a test cluster and we are happy so far with the performance. We will be deploying on the big cluster in late April 2001.
• January 29th, 2001
  Version 1.1-1 of Ganglia is released. Details...
• January 16th, 2001
  Version 1.0-3 of Ganglia is released. Details...
• January 9th, 2001
  Version 1.0 of the Ganglia Cluster Monitoring Toolkit is now available for download in tar and rpm format. Details...
• December 14th, 2000
  NPACI Releases Rocks Open-source Toolkit for Installing and Managing High-performance Clusters using UCB's rEXEC, Ganglia, Rootstock. Online Article
• November 21st, 2000
  the kernel on the cluster has been upgraded from 2.2.5 to 2.2.17 with a patch to incorporate the the latest nfs client work from Trond, the latest nfs server work from Neil Brown, and the NLM4 server-side locking code from SGI.
• November 17th, 2000
  The Millennium Project exhibited a 17-node Compaq cluster at Supercomputing 2000 in Dallas. This was a collaborative effort with the Rocks Cluster effort at San Diego Supercomputer Center.
• October 11th, 2000
  The mpich installation on the cluster now uses rexec to initiate mpi runs. Using rexec greatly simplifies key-management and decreases the time to initialize mpi jobs.
• August 21st, 2000
  The Math Millennium cluster is configured and running. The front-end is millennium.math.berkeley.edu.
• August 21st, 2000
  Anemone, a market-based batch queue system has been developed by Brent Chun.
• June 26th, 2000
  Rootstock has been updated to include a new easier-to-use floppy build web form.
• June 22nd, 2000
  The Millennium Group participated in the Endeavour Retreat 2000 at Granlibbaken Resort and Conference Center.
• May 01st, 2000
  Matt Welsh has created a PHP front-end tool, ClusterView, which presents the load state of the Millennium cluster.
• April 28th, 2000
  The Berkeley ISTORE Project will be moving over a hundred istore machines to the Millennium network. The ISTORE project is building adaptive, highly-available, self-maintaining, self-tuning back-end servers for storage-intensive network services.
• April 25th, 2000
  We've redesigned our web site in order to make it easier to use. If you find any broken links or missing information, please send us an e-mail.
• February 23rd, 2000
  Philip Buonadonna was awarded the Best Poster Award at the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) All Hands Meeting 2000 held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. His poster, entitled Cluster Network I/O, proposed solutions for high-performance, scalable communication on commodity-node distributed systems.
• December 06th, 1999
  Satoshi Matsuoka, a professor from Tokyo Institute of Technology, will be visiting. Matt Welsh had the opportunity to work with Mr. Matsuoka and his group on the OpenJIT project in Japan over the summer.
• December 02nd, 1999
  A fast implementation of MPI has been installed. It uses the GM 1.1.1 fast communication layer and is integrated with the REXEC remote execution system. The MPI tutorial will help get you started using MPI on Millennium.
• Myrinet networks have been installed on both the priced (mm1 to mm14) and unpriced (mm15 to mm28) clusters. Myricom's GM 1.1.1 is the communication layer (32 us RTT, 59.5 MB/s pt-to-pt BW). Each node has a single LANai 7.2 NIC. Both clusters are each connected on their own 16-port switch.
• November 15th, 1999
  The Millennium Group heads to Portland for SC '99.
• May 07th, 1999
  The linux kernel on mm3-mm16 has been changed. They all have the expanded shared memory segments now. The systems have been rebooted and are ready for use. April 16, 1999 Advanced program for the 1999 ACM Java Grande Conference
• April 12th, 1999
  Article on corporate IT support spotlighting Beowulf, Millennium, and the role of Linux. Matt Welsh is featured in the article.