Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF): Indiana-Purdue Grid (IP-grid)

普渡大学与印第安纳大学合作，由高级计算基础设施部门提供为期两年的合作协议，金额为1,467,769美元，用于将普渡大学和印第安纳大学的可用资源与可扩展的太ascale设施（ETF）整合在一起。提供资金用于建立从普渡大学和印第安纳大学通过印第安纳波利斯到ETF的芝加哥中心的20千兆/秒连接。由于通过泰斯卡尔扩展奖提供的资金，普渡大学和印第安纳大学将为ETF用户社区贡献很大一部分资源，包括：1)异构系统组持续提供1.67万亿次浮点运算，并有能力为非常苛刻的合理应用提供高达6.26万亿次浮点运算；2)作为ETF的一部分提供的基准存储容量将包括129tb，峰值需求贡献超过400tb；3)还提供各种可视化资源，包括CAVE、Immersadesk、Display Walls等；4)专门的仪器设施，包括普渡大学地面天文台和先进光子源服务晶体学（废料）；5)获取生命科学、地球系统模拟、植被和土壤研究、多光谱遥感成像、地质GIS数据、经济和社会科学数据以及人类学数据等领域的大量科学数据集。普渡大学和印第安纳大学的研究人员也将为可扩展太斯卡尔设施的更广泛目标做出重大贡献。他们在网格计算、中间件和门户开发领域拥有大量专业知识。通过参与IP-Grid，两所大学还开展了广泛的外展活动，促进从K-12课程到本科和研究生课程的各种技术劳动力的培训和教育。

Purdue University, in collaboration with Indiana University is funded by a two-year Cooperative Agreement from the Division of Advanced Computational Infrastructure in the amount of $1,467,769 to integrate the resources available at Purdue University and Indiana University with the Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF). Funding is provided to establish a 20 gigabit/second connection from Purdue University and Indiana University through Indianapolis to the Chicago Hub of the ETF.As a result of the funding provided through this Terascale Extension Award, Purdue University and Indiana University will be contributing a significant fraction of their resources to the ETF user community including: 1) a heterogeneous group of systems delivering 1.67 teraflops on an ongoing basis with the capability to offer up to 6.26 teraflops for very demanding well-justified applications; 2) a baseline storage capacity offered as part of ETF would include 129 terabytes with peak demand contributions exceeding 400 terabytes; 3) access to a variety of visualization resources including a CAVE, an Immersadesk, Display Walls, etc. are also offered; 4) specialized instrumentation facilities including the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory, and the Service Crystallography at Advanced Photon Sources (SCrAPS); and 5) access to a number of large scientific data sets in the life sciences, earth system simulations, vegetation and soils research, multispectral remote sensing imaging, geological GIS data, economic and social scientific data, and anthropological data. Investigators at both Purdue University and Indiana University will also contribute significantly to the broader goals of the Extensible Terascale Facility. They have a significant concentration of expertise in areas of grid computing, middleware, and portal development. Both universities, through their IP-Grid participation, also have extensive outreach activities fostering the training and education of a diverse technological workforce extending from K-12 programs through undergraduate and graduate programs.