CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: Enhancing the OrangeGrid - Upgrading the Syracuse Campus Network to Enable High Throughput Research Computing

CC-NIE 网络基础设施：增强 OrangeGrid - 升级雪城大学校园网络以实现高吞吐量研究计算

• 批准号: 1341006
• 负责人: Christopher Sedore
• 金额: $ 49.85万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1341006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; NIE; Networking; Infrastructure; Enhancing

Syracuse University's OrangeGrid uses the HTCondor High Throughput Computing System and a custom virtual machine manager to allow idle computers in offices and student labs to run research-computing tasks. With over 7000 CPU cores, and growing, OrangeGrid is used by Syracuse University's research and teaching community for science and engineering applications. Science drivers for OrangeGrid come from a diverse range of projects, including gravitational-wave astronomy, biological physics, theoretical condensed-matter physics, computational fluid dynamics, high-energy physics, Earth sciences, soft matter physics, and biomedical and chemical engineering.The CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure project at Syracuse University upgrades the campus network infrastructure to support data-intensive research computing on OrangeGrid. This project increases the campus backbone bandwidth from 10Gbps to 40Gbps and provides 10Gbps links to the buildings providing the largest number of OrangeGrid cores. This project directly affects the usability and productivity of OrangeGrid, opening it to a wider-range of science and engineering projects from SU researchers.OrangeGrid is an important resource for Syracuse University's faculty and students. The combination of easy access and power make OrangeGrid especially important to beginning researchers and small groups who do not have their own computing resources. Undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Arts and Sciences have access to OrangeGrid, giving them early experience with high-throughput research computing. The experiences gained from running OrangeGrid provide a road map for other universities who wish to leverage unused cycles from desktop computing for scientific research.

锡拉丘兹大学的OrangeGrid使用HTCondor高吞吐量计算系统和自定义虚拟机管理器，允许办公室和学生实验室中的空闲计算机运行研究计算任务。OrangeGrid拥有超过7000个CPU内核，并且还在不断增长，锡拉丘兹大学的研究和教学社区将其用于科学和工程应用。 OrangeGrid的科学驱动力来自各种各样的项目，包括引力波天文学、生物物理学、理论凝聚态物理学、计算流体动力学、高能物理学、地球科学、软物质物理学以及生物医学和化学工程。锡拉丘兹大学的CC-NIE网络基础设施项目升级了校园网络基础设施，以支持OrangeGrid上的数据密集型研究计算。该项目将校园主干带宽从10 Gbps提高到40 Gbps，并为提供最多OrangeGrid核心的建筑物提供10 Gbps链路。该项目直接影响OrangeGrid的可用性和生产力，使其成为SU研究人员更广泛的科学和工程项目。OrangeGrid是锡拉丘兹大学教师和学生的重要资源。OrangeGrid的易用性和强大功能使得它对于没有自己的计算资源的研究人员和小团体来说尤为重要。 来自工程与计算机科学学院和艺术与科学学院的本科生和研究生可以访问OrangeGrid，为他们提供高吞吐量研究计算的早期经验。 从运行OrangeGrid中获得的经验为其他希望利用桌面计算的未使用周期进行科学研究的大学提供了路线图。