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Proposal for Upgrading Computer Science Programming Servers Project description The Department of Computer Science has a programming stack that consists eight programming servers and one network switch. Programming servers are program1 through program4 and linprog1 through linprog4. Program1 through program4 are Sun SPARC servers that run Solaris operating system. Linprog1 through linprog4 are Intel servers that run Linux operating system. The programming stack was designed to serve as the general programming environment for Computer Science course programming projects and assignments. Programming servers have C language compiler, C++ language compiler, Java language compile, Perl language interpreter, Python language interpreter, Ruby language interpreter, DDD and gdb debugger, Matlab, X11, Emacs, Vim, Latex, Ghostview, xdvi, mysql client, git, Pcal, stdbuf, Clang, Pari-gp, Octave, QTSpim, ghc, lemon, re2c, SSH, SFTP, and other important programming language develop tools and software installed. The four Sun SPARC servers were in service since 2003 and each server has 2GB RAM and 2 single-core CPUs. The four linprog servers were added in early 2008 and each server has 8 GB RAM and 2 dual-core CPUs. The network switch was purchased in 2003 and is a 10/100mbps unmanaged switch. In this fall semester, the number of students enrolled in both undergraduate and graduate Computer Science courses (excluding Computer Literacy) are 2670 in 130 different class sections. Spring semester enrollment is similar to fall. Summer semester enrollment is about 1000 but CS students use these servers year round even if they are not enrolled in a CS class. There are a total of 3392 student accounts that are hosted on the servers. A majority of Computer Science courses involve computer programming using various programming languages and tools. Each semester hundreds of students use the servers to do their course work. Faculty and teaching assistants use the servers to design, test, and grade class projects and assignments. In order to make the aging programming servers usable by everyone, we have to set memory and process limit for each user to a minimum level. Even with memory and CPU restriction, we frequently see high CPU loads and out of memory errors throughout a semester. This significantly curtailed students’ ability to learn and program large scope programming projects and faculty often has to simplify their assignment to fit our server limitations. Due to hardware limitations, we were unable to install the latest versions of some software on the servers. For example, the Matlab that is installed on Program1-4 is several versions behind and doesn’t have the features required. We have to install our latest licensed Matlab on a faculty’s research server. For Parallel and Concurrent Programming course, projects require servers to have minimum 128GB memory to run. Since none of programming servers have the required memory, the professor who taught

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the course used his research server cluster for course projects. Although faculty members are very supportive and are willing to accommodate Systems Group’s request, this practice has negative impacts on both students’ learning and faculty’s research. Professors often reported that when students run course projects, their researchers had to stop research activities as servers were stressed by buggy programs written by students who were learning to program and optimize their programs. This also causes confusion to students as they have to remember to use different servers for certain courses and their CS home directory and files are not available on those servers. They have to transfer files back-and-forth between their CS account and their temporary account on faculty servers. Professors have to manually create student accounts on their servers and open up their research servers to outside access. Since professors are not professionally trained systems administrators, granting broad access to their servers could lead to potential security threats. Due to different architecture, programs compiled on program1-4 cannot run on linprog1-4 and vice versa. Practicing distributed programming in these conditions are difficult because programs can only be run on one cluster of four or the other. The switch that serves the programming stack is an unmanaged 10/100 mbps switch. 100mbps slows down inter-server network communications and unmanaged switch cannot separate user data traffics from other maintenance traffics such as backups and updates. Many times students have to deal with lagging servers when the machine goes on routine backups and updates. This project seeks funding to upgrade the mission critical programming environment. Impact of this project The programming stack is the center piece of supporting Computer Science’s teaching mission. Having a powerful programming environment would benefit every student who wants to learning programming skills. Students can concentrate on how to fulfill course requirements and don’t have to compete each other for CPU times and memory usages. It would also allow professors to use their research servers on their intended purposes. With 10G network becomes common in datacenter network, a 10G managed switch would facilitate server communications and guarantee traffic priorities. Project plan Base on there are four Computer Science courses require SPARC architecture servers, we redesigned the new programming stack to have eight Intel servers, two SPARC servers, and one

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10 gigabit switch to interconnect the servers. We would like to purchase eight Dell PowerEdge R530 servers, two entry level SPARC T4-1 servers, one Cisco NEXUS 3064-T 10 gigabit switch, and UPS power supply units. We would like to purchase a server rack with KMM console as current server rack is too short to house new servers. Ongoing support Each Dell server costs $9,554 and has two 14-core Intel Xeon E5-2683 CPUs, 128GB RAM, a dual port 10 gigabit network interface. Each SPARC T4-1 server costs $22,232 and has one 8-core SPARC CPU, 32GB memory, and one dual port 10 gigabit network interface. The Cisco Nexus 3064-T switch costs $15,864. The UPS power units cost $2,413 and rack costs $1,820. Most software are obtained free through open source or high education programs offered by software companies. Licensed software are paid using department’s general budget. There is no cost for operating systems and technical support. Description of the project team The project team consists of the Systems Group led by Yu Wang. Mr. Wang has Master’s Degree in Computer Science and 15 years of experience administering large complex computer and network systems. He also holds Cisco professional certificates in network infrastructure. Supporting documents 1. Photo of the program servers and server rack and rack switch (next page)

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2. Price quotes for eight linprog servers, UPS, and rack

(Server quote contains $1,500 Holiday Savings that will be expired after holiday. We added $1,500 in our funding proposal)

3. Price quote for two program servers 4. Price quote for network switch

Order Date 12/9/2015

Order Contact Yu Wang

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PowerEdge R530 PowerEdge R530 Server, No TPM

Chassis Configuration 3.5" Chassis with up to 8 Hot Plug Hard Drives

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Processor Intel® Xeon® E5-2683 v3 2.0GHz,35M Cache,9.60GT/s QPI,Turbo,HT,14C/28T (120W) Max

Mem 2133MHz

Additional Processor Upgrade to Two Intel® Xeon® E5-2683 v3 2.0GHz,35M Cache,9.60GT/s

QPI,Turbo,HT,14C/28T (120W)

Memory DIMM Type and Speed 2133MT/s RDIMMs

Memory Configuration Type Advanced ECC

Memory Capacity (4) 32GB RDIMM, 2133 MT/s, Low Volt, Dual Rank, x4 Data Width

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OS Media Kits No Media Required

RAID Configuration RAID 1 for H330/H730/H730P (2 HDDs or SSDs)

RAID Controller PERC H730P RAID Controller, 2GB NV Cache

Hard Drives (2) 600GB 15K RPM SAS 12Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive,3.5in HYB CARR

PCIe Riser Riser

Additional Network Cards QLogic 57810 Dual Port 10Gb Base-T Network Adapter

Additional Network Cards On-Board Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1Gb LOM

Power Supply Dual, Hot-plug, Redundant Power Supply (1+1), 1100W

Power Cords (2) C13 to C14, PDU Style, 12 AMP, 2 Feet (.6m) Power Cord, North America

Power Cords (2) C13 to C14, PDU Style, 12 AMP, 6.5 Feet (2m) Power Cord, North America

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Project Title: Hardware upgrade for Computer Science Programming Environment

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Funds RequestedA. 76,432.00$ B. 44,464.00$ C. 15,557.00$ D.

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3,868.00$ Rack, UPS, PDUs, Console, Cables

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