SCI: ETF Early Operations - PSC

可扩展万亿级设施（ETF）或TeraGrid涉及九个资源提供商，这些资源提供商运营高性能计算，信息和可视化设施，通过专用光网络互连，并与一组通用软件集成，为用户社区提供一组有凝聚力的资源和服务。2004年10月1日，ETF将结束为期三年的构建工作，以创建这种分布式环境，并将过渡到运行状态。 该提案概述了匹兹堡超级计算中心作为TeraGrid系统的一部分提供的一系列服务。 PSC将通过为TeraGrid用户提供和运营一个综合资源环境，实现领先的科学探究。它包括由紧密耦合的高性能存储、可视化和网络系统支持的功能计算平台。PSC人员将直接与选定的用户合作，以提高其应用程序在TG系统上的性能，重点是扩展到大处理器数量。 根据另一项提案，PSC将在一组具有代表性的初始应用程序上进行收购、安装、培养、集成、稳定、评估和测试，这是一个早期模型（原型）超级计算系统。 基于克雷公司正在建造的红色风暴系统。对于桑迪亚国家实验室（SNL）来说，它被设计成一个高度可扩展的能力系统，用于非常苛刻的高端计算科学和工程研究应用。 它将与PSC文件和网络系统接口并由其提供服务，并将成为TeraGrid的一个组件。 本建议书包括将重要的新资源整合到PSC和TG环境中所需的工作。该系统将足够大，以支持广泛的测试，以建立其可行性，在更大的规模，作为一个领导级的资源，为开放的美国研究界。

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF), or TeraGrid, involves nine resource providers operating high-performance computing, information, and visualization facilities, interconnected by a dedicated optical network and integrated with a set of common software that presents the user community with a cohesive set of resources and services. On October 1, 2004, the ETF will conclude a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment and will transition into an operational state. This proposal outlines a set of services to be provided at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as part of the TeraGrid system. PSC will enable leading-edge scientific inquiry by providing and operating an integrated resources environment to TeraGrid users. It comprises capability-computing platforms supported by tightly coupled, high-performance storage, visualization, and networking systems. PSC personnel will work directly with selected users to improve the performance of their applications on the TG systems, emphasizing scaling to large processor counts. Under a separate proposal, PSC will acquire, install, bring up, integrate, stabilize, assess and test on a representative set of initial applications, an early model (prototype) supercomputing system. Based on the Red Storm system now under construction by Cray, Inc. for the Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), it is designed to be a highly scalable capability system for very demanding, high-end computational scientific and engineering research applications. It will be interfaced to, and served by, the PSC file and network systems and will be a component of the TeraGrid. This proposal includes efforts required to integrate the significant new resource into the PSC and TG environment. The system will be sufficiently large to support a broad range of testing to establish its viability, at a larger scale, as a leadership-class resource for the open U.S. research community.