The TeraGrid: Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering

加州大学圣地亚哥分校与伊利诺伊大学香槟分校合作， 由高级计算基础设施部的一项合作协议提供资金，金额为26，450，500美元，用于建造一个分布式万亿级设施（DTF），该设施将跨越四个机构：1）圣地亚哥超级计算机中心，2）国家超级计算应用中心，3）加州理工学院和4）阿贡国家实验室。 通过与IBM、Intel、Myrinet、Qwest、Oracle和SUN的合作，他们将构建一个基于多个万亿次Linux集群以及大规模存储归档和数据管理软件的DTF。 一个40千兆位/秒的光网络将互连DTF的组件。DTF硬件将使用Globus中间件和高级计算基础设施伙伴关系（PACI）开发的其他计算网格技术进行集成，以创建一个具有11.6 TF计算能力和525 TB磁盘存储的系统，以支持万亿次计算（NCSA为6.1 TF和153 TB）、分布式数据管理（SDSC为4.1 TF和248 TB）、远程渲染和可视化（阿贡为1 TF和31 TB）以及数据密集型科学应用分析（加州理工学院为0.4 TF和93 TB）。统一的运营中心将协调管理、用户支持和访问。DTF TeraGrid将对计算科学界产生广泛的影响，并最终使整个社会受益。 首先，TeraGrid将通过向学术研究人员提供比现在普遍可用的能力高一个数量级的下一代信息技术来推进发现和促进理解。 第二，TeraGrid将通过其对商品集群、共同使用模式和社区代码的关注，增强广泛的科学和工程社区的能力。 第三，通过DTF操作获得的经验，TeraGrid的见解和软件将打包成一系列软件分发版本供社区使用。 该软件包将把TeraGrid技术扩展到更广泛的国家社区，包括少数民族服务机构（MSI）和EPSCoR机构。

The University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is funded by a Cooperative Agreement from the Division of Advanced Computational Infrastructure in the amount of $26,450,500 to construct a Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF) that will span four institutions: 1) San Diego Supercomputer Center, 2)National Center for Supercomputing Applications , 3) California Institute of Technology and 4) Argonne National Laboratory . In partnership with IBM, Intel, Myrinet, Qwest, Oracle and SUN, they will construct a DTF based on multiple terascale Linux clusters, as well as large-scale storage archives and data management software. A 40 gigabit/second optical mesh will interconnect the DTF's components. The DTF hardware will be integrated, using Globus middleware and other Computational Grid technologies develop by the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI), to create a system with an aggregate of 11.6 TF of computing capability and 525 TB of disk storage to support terascale computing (6.1 TF and 153 TB at NCSA), distributed data management (4.1 TF and 248 TB at SDSC), remote rendering and visualization (1 TF and 31 TB at Argonne), and data-intensive scientific application analysis (0.4 TF and 93 TB at Caltech). A unified Operations Center will coordinate management, user support, and access. The DTF TeraGrid will have broad impact on the computational science community and will ultimately benefit society as a whole. First, the TeraGrid will advance discovery and promote understanding by making available to academic researchers next generation information technologies that are an order of magnitude more capable than now generally available. Second, the TeraGrid will empower broad scientific and engineering communities through its focus on commodity clusters, common usage models and community codes. Third, experience gained through DTF operation, insights and software from the TeraGrid will be packaged in a series of software distributions for community use. This software packaging will extend TeraGrid technologies to the broader national community, including Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) and EPSCoR Institutions.