Yesterday (the 27th) the openlab Monthly Review meeting covered two topics: A TOP500 run in the Computer Centre and a project documentation proposal.

A. Hirstius presented the TOP500 run he had done together with colleagues from FIO and CS plus involvement of experts from Intel. The newly acquired Core 2 Duo servers, interconnected with 1 Gb Ethernet, made up the cluster. By using 340 servers, which corresponds to 1360 cores, he was able to achieve 8329 GFlops after intensive tuning and optimization efforts. This would put us in position 79 in the current list, so we hope to be around position 140 in June when the new list
will be published!

S. Jarp covered a proposal for documenting the openlab projects via "Project Sheets". By having such documentation available in HTML, it will be easier to produce summaries of activities and results on our Web pages, but also in Quarterly Reviews and Annual Reports. There was a good discussion of the proposal during the talk with valuable input from several people. The next step is now to put in place the "machinery" that will automate the handling of such project sheets.

Both presentations are available to the openlab Web pages.

S. Jarp
CERN openlab CTO