1. EverLab @ Aston David Saad

2. Status Sept 2004 – up and running Sept 2004 – up and running June 2005 – 2 CPU 4 HD fail June 2005 – 2 CPU 4 HD fail May 2006 – 1 CPU 8 HD fail May 2006 – 1 CPU 8 HD fail In comparison: 3 clusters of 7, 25, 150 nodes with no major failures In comparison: 3 clusters of 7, 25, 150 nodes with no major failures 14 blades registered on EverLab 14 blades registered on EverLab One storage node running Fedora core 4 One storage node running Fedora core 4 Front running DHCP, PXE, Fedora core 5 Front running DHCP, PXE, Fedora core 5 EverLab status

3. Anticipated use of EverLab I 1. Message passing for inference Graph colouring, data distribution Power grids, traffic Multinode communication (CDMA) 2. Large scale simulations To validate theoretical results Applicability to realistic systems

4. Anticipated use of EverLab II 3. Solving (saddle-point) equations numerically Multinode communication Computational complexity, colouring Structural glasses 4. Monte-Carlo for sampling & optimisation

5. Software requirements 1. Basic programming languages C, C++ Fortran (?) 2. MPI