SCI: TeraGrid Resource Partners

SCI：TeraGrid 资源合作伙伴

• 批准号: 0503944
• 负责人: Richard Moore
• 金额: $ 1491.92万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0503944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCI; TeraGrid; Resource; Partners

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) is the next stage in the evolution of NSF large-scale cyberinfrastructure for enabling high-end computational research. The ETF enables researchers to address the most challenging computational problems by utilizing the integrated resources, data collections, instruments and visualization capabilities of nine resource partners. On October 1, 2004, the ETF concluded a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment called the TeraGrid (TG) and we are now entering the production operations phase.The TeraGrid resource partners include: the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT-Austin, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, Indiana University, Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.A separate proposal was submitted to NSF on October 19, 2004 for the TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG). Under the direction of Charlie Catlett at UC/ANL, in general, the GIG will be responsible for coordination of development activities for the TeraGrid with subcontracts to the partner sites. The resource partners (RP) will each have independent cooperative agreements with NSF, but will work closely with the GIG to implement the vision of the TeraGrid.This proposal outlines the plan at SDSC to participate as a resource partner in the TeraGrid team to provide the expanding user community with ongoing access to this computational science facility. This proposal covers the period November 1, 2004 through October 31, 2009.SDSC will bring a powerful set of compute and storage resources to the TeraGrid and will focus on the data-intensive computing needs of TeraGrid scientists. SDSC's current TeraGrid resources are summarized with those of other RP sites and include a 3.1 Tflop IA- 64 system, a 1.1 Tflop Power4 system (part of the larger DataStar system), and an experimental 1.3 Tflop IA-64 system. Every SDSC compute node can access data at 200 MBps or more and can use its DB2 client to address structured databases via leading edge servers. The central Storage Area Network (SAN) has over 0.5 PB of disk and a 6 PB archival tape capacity available to all nodes and servers, and SDSC plans to export its capabilities across the TeraGrid Wide Area Network (WAN) [16, 17] using a true global file system. SDSC's 540 TB SAN of online disk will make possible new modes of handling data across the TeraGrid. Generating data locally, competing with others for disk space and saving results to archival storage through an often slow interface all serve as restrictions to scientists. The ability to write directly to a very large file system, where post-processing can occur and where results are automatically archived, is a significant improvement in capability for scientists. For example, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) [6] has performed an earthquake simulation analyzing the resulting damage from a potential earthquake in the Southern California region.

可扩展的Terascale设施（ETF）是NSF大规模网络基础结构进化的下一个阶段，用于实现高端计算研究。 ETF使研究人员能够利用九个资源合作伙伴的集成资源，数据收集，工具和可视化功能来解决最具挑战性的计算问题。 On October 1, 2004, the ETF concluded a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment called the TeraGrid (TG) and we are now entering the production operations phase.The TeraGrid resource partners include: the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT-Austin, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, Indiana University,普渡大学，橡树岭国家实验室和匹兹堡超级计算中心。通常，在UC/ANL的Charlie Catlett的指导下，演出将负责与合作伙伴站点分包合同的Teragrid开发活动协调。资源合作伙伴（RP）将与NSF达成独立的合作协议，但将与演出紧密合作，以实施Teragrid的愿景。该提案概述了SDSC的计划，以作为TERAGRID团队中的资源合作伙伴参与，以为扩展的用户社区提供持续访问该计算科学机构。该提案涵盖了2004年11月1日至2009年10月31日的期限。SDSC将为Teragrid带来强大的计算和存储资源，并将重点关注TeraGRID科学家的数据密集型计算需求。 SDSC当前的TeraGRID资源总结了其他RP站点的资源，其中包括3.1 TFLOP IA-64系统，1.1 Tflop Power4 System（较大数据站系统的一部分）和实验性1.3 TFLOP IA-64系统。每个SDSC计算节点都可以在200 Mbps或更多的情况下访问数据，并且可以使用其DB2客户端通过前沿服务器来解决结构化数据库。中央存储区网络（SAN）具有超过0.5 pb的磁盘和6个PB档案磁带容量，可供所有节点和服务器提供，SDSC计划使用真实的全球文件系统在TeraGRID大型区域网络（WAN）[16，17]中导出其功能。 SDSC的540 TB SAN在线磁盘将使整个Teragrid上的数据的新模式成为可能。在本地生成数据，与他人竞争磁盘空间，并通过通常缓慢的界面将结果保存到存储存储中，这都是对科学家的限制。可以直接写入非常大的文件系统的能力，即可能发生后处理并自动存档结果，这对科学家来说是显着提高的能力。例如，南加州地震中心（SCEC）[6]进行了地震模拟，分析了南加州地区的潜在地震造成的破坏。