MRI/RUI: Development of a Computing Cluster to Support the University of Richmond Nuclear Physics Research Program at Jefferson Lab

MRI/RUI：开发计算集群以支持里士满大学杰斐逊实验室核物理研究项目

• 批准号: 0116349
• 负责人: Michael Vineyard
• 金额: $ 15.18万
• 依托单位: University of Richmond
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-15 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0116349&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; RUI; Development; Computing; Cluster

A computer cluster is being developed to support the University of Richmond (UR) research program in electromagnetic nuclear physics at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab).The system will consist of 50 slave nodes, a master node, and a 3-TByte RAID file server. Each of the slave computing nodes will have two 1-GHz Pentium III processors, 512 MBytes of RAM, and a 20-GByte hard disk. The computers will run the Linux operating system and will be configured on a local area network through a high-speed switch. The master node will be used to manage the execution of batch jobs and to act as a firewall to restrict access to the system and reduce network traffic among the nodes of the cluster. The cluster is modeled after a prototype system that was developed at UR and has been running successfully for the past two years. The system will be used for data analysis and Monte-Carlo simulations for the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) Collaboration in Hall B at Jefferson Lab. The goal of the CLASresearch program is to study baryon and meson structure and spectroscopy, gluonic degrees of freedom, and multinucleon correlations in nuclei.

正在开发一个计算机集群，以支持里士满大学（UR）在托马斯杰斐逊国家加速器设施（杰斐逊实验室）的电磁核物理研究计划。该系统将包括50个从节点，一个主节点，和一个3 TB RAID文件服务器。每个从属计算节点将有两个1 GHz奔腾III处理器、512 MB RAM和一个20 GB硬盘。这些计算机将运行Linux操作系统，并将通过高速交换机在局域网上进行配置。主节点将用于管理批处理作业的执行，并充当防火墙以限制对系统的访问并减少群集节点之间的网络流量。该集群是仿照乌尔都大学开发的原型系统建立的，过去两年来一直成功运行。该系统将用于数据分析和蒙特-卡罗模拟的CEBAF大型接受光谱仪（CLAS）合作在大厅B在杰斐逊实验室。CLASresearch计划的目标是研究重子和介子的结构和光谱，胶子自由度，以及核中的多核子相关性。