SCI: ETF Early Operations - NCSA

SCI：ETF 早期运营 - NCSA

• 批准号: 0451538
• 负责人: Timothy Cockerill
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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: 2005-03-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0451538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCI; ETF; Early; Operations; NCSA

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF), or TeraGrid involves nine resource providers operating high-performance computing, information, and visualization facilities, interconnected with a dedicated high bandwidth optical network and integrated with a set of common software that presents the user community with a cohesive set of distributed resources and services. On October 1, 2004, the ETF will conclude a three-year construction effort and will transition into an operational state. This proposal outlines services to be provided at NCSA as part of early operation of the TeraGrid system. NCSA brings a tremendous wealth of experience in production HPC environments to the ETF partnership. Not only will NCSA be providing the largest scale high-end systems to TeraGrid, but also experienced personnel who will provide the users with support throughout the life of their projects. NCSA staff process initial allocations requests, route and respond to questions and problem reports, assist scientists with their computational and data needs, tune the TeraGrid environment for optimal performance, and promote science success stories. Additionally, through the ETF construction project, NCSA has provided considerable contributions to ETF in the areas of file system and system scaling, file transfer performance characterization, as well as contributed to building the core TeraGrid security team NCSA will be providing an aggregate 16 TFlops of peak computing power and over half a petabyte of online storage for ETF. NCSA will initially provide a 10TFlop IBM/Intel Itanium 2 compute resource connected to one parallel file system on a 120TB Storage Area Network (SAN) system, and a second parallel file system across the entire cluster attached to servers with 60TB of direct-connected online storage. A second production computing resource, a shared-memory, symmetric multi-processor (SMP) SGI Altix system, will come online in March 2005. This system will consist of 1,024 Intel Itanium 2 processors running the Linux operating system, 3 terabytes of globally accessible memory, and 370 terabytes of SGI Infinite Storage, with a peak performance of more than 6 teraflops.

可扩展Terascale设施（ETF）或TeraGrid涉及9个资源提供商，它们运行高性能计算、信息和可视化设施，通过专用的高带宽光网络相互连接，并与一组通用软件集成，向用户社区提供一组内聚的分布式资源和服务。2004年10月1日，ETF将结束为期三年的建设工作，进入运营状态。该提案概述了将在NCSA提供的服务，作为TeraGrid系统早期运行的一部分。NCSA为ETF合作伙伴关系带来了生产HPC环境方面的丰富经验。NCSA不仅将为TeraGrid提供最大规模的高端系统，而且还将提供经验丰富的人员，他们将在项目的整个生命周期内为用户提供支持。NCSA工作人员处理初始分配请求，路由和响应问题和问题报告，协助科学家满足他们的计算和数据需求，调整TeraGrid环境以获得最佳性能，并促进科学成功的故事。此外，通过ETF建设项目，NCSA在文件系统和系统扩展、文件传输性能表征等领域为ETF提供了相当大的贡献，并为构建核心TeraGrid安全团队做出了贡献。NCSA将为ETF提供总计16 TFlops的峰值计算能力和超过半pb的在线存储。NCSA最初将提供一个10TFlop的IBM/Intel Itanium 2计算资源，连接到120TB存储区域网络（SAN）系统上的一个并行文件系统，第二个并行文件系统横跨整个集群，连接到具有60TB直连在线存储的服务器上。第二个生产计算资源是共享内存、对称多处理器（SMP） SGI Altix系统，将于2005年3月上线。该系统将由1024个运行Linux操作系统的Intel Itanium 2处理器、3tb的全局可访问内存和370tb的SGI无限存储组成，峰值性能超过6teraflops。