HPCOPS: The LONI Grid - Leveraging HPC Resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative for Science and Engineering Research and Education

通过该项目，路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）加入了被称为TeraGrid的综合国家网络基础设施，为国家科学和工程研究人员提供高性能计算（HPC）服务和网格技术专业知识。该项目扩展了TeraGrid的计算能力，为戴尔Linux集群提供了50%的访问权限，该集群采用了英特尔的多核处理器技术。此外，该项目还提供了一些数据管理和网格服务。这些服务包括petshaare分布式数据存档、分析和可视化系统，用于计算、网络和数据服务的高可用鲁棒协同分配器（HARC）协同调度程序，以及Cactus Computational Toolkit。该项目包括提供用户支持，重点是支持想要开发网格应用程序的研究人员。该项目包括一个由南方大学（一个大型HBCU系统）主持的全州推广计划。预计该项目将利用路易斯安那州立大学与路易斯安那州光网络倡议（LONI）和东南大学研究协会（SURA）的联系，以增加代表性不足群体对TeraGrid的使用。项目工作人员将与飓风和风暴潮建模的研究人员合作，开发一个TeraGrid科学网关，用于飓风接近美国沿海地区时风暴潮的事件驱动的综合建模，该项目有可能有助于改善国家飓风准备工作。该奖项的最终效果将是：(i)为科学和工程研究和教育界提供使用熟悉和流行架构的高性能计算资源的途径；（ii）加强TeraGrid内电网服务的专业知识和用户支持；（iii）增加TeraGrid伙伴关系的地域多样性；（iv）加强TeraGrid与包括大量来自弱势群体的学生和教师的大学的联系。受资助的高性能计算服务将允许研究人员在广泛的学科范围内对许多科学和工程领域的主题进行高级研究。预计该奖项与NSF高性能计算项目的其他近期奖项将共同加强科学和工程界高端网络基础设施服务的供应，如高性能计算、社区数据收集和数据分析服务、远程可视化和科学网关服务，通过全国分布式网络基础设施系统TeraGrid。

With this project, Louisiana State University (LSU) joins the integrated, national cyberinfrastructure known as the TeraGrid, contributing high-performance computing (HPC) services and grid technology expertise to support the nation's science and engineering researchers. This project extends the computational capacity of the TeraGrid by providing access to 50% of a Dell Linux cluster that employs Intel's multi-core processor technology. In addition, the project contributes access to several data management and grid services. These services include the PetaShare distributed data archival, analysis, and visualization system, the Highly-Available Robust Co-allocator (HARC) co- scheduler for compute, network, and data services, and the Cactus Computational Toolkit. The project includes the provision of user support, with an emphasis on support for researchers wanting to develop grid applications.The project includes a statewide outreach program anchored by Southern University, a large HBCU system. It is anticipated that the project will leverage LSU's connections with the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) and the Southeastern University Research Association (SURA) to increase the usage of TeraGrid by under-represented groups. Project staff will work with researchers in hurricane and storm surge modeling to develop a TeraGrid Science Gateway for event-driven, ensemble modeling of storm surges when hurricanes approach US coastal regions, a project with the potential to contribute to efforts to improve national hurricane preparedness.The net effects of this award will be: (i) to provide the science and engineering research and education community with access to a high-performance computing resource with a familiar and popular architecture; (ii) to enhance the expertise in and user support for grid services within the TeraGrid; (iii) to increase the geographical diversity of the TeraGrid partnership; and (iv) to enhance the TeraGrid's connections with universities that include significant numbers of students and faculty from under-represented groups. The funded HPC services will permit investigators across a broad range of disciplines to conduct advanced research on topics in many areas of science and engineering. It is anticipated that this award, together with other recent awards in NSF's high-performance computing program, will collectively strengthen the provisioning, to the science and engineering community, of high-end cyberinfrastructure services - such as high-performance computing, community data collections and data analysis services, remote visualization, and science gateway services - through the nationally distributed cyberinfrastructure system that is the TeraGrid.