Speaker
Robert GARDNER
(UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Description
The purpose of the Teraport project is to provide computing and network
infrastructure for a university-based, multi-disciplinary, Grid-enabled analysis
platform with superior network connectivity to both domestic and international
networks. The facility is configured and managed as part of larger Grid
infrastructures, with specific focus on integration and interoperability with the
TeraGrid and Open Science Grid (OSG) fabrics. The cluster consists of 122 compute
nodes with dual 2.2 GHz 64-bit AMD/Opteron processors (244 total), 15 infrastructure
nodes, and 11 TB of fiber channel RAID, all connected with Gigabit Ethernet. The
software environment, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server with the high performance Global
Parallel File System (GPFS), was chosen for cost and proven benchmarks of the Opteron
platform with IBM software components. As part of the project, the optical path
(dense wavelength division multiplexing equipment and routers) was upgraded,
providing 10 Gbps connectivity to Starlight in Chicago.
Primary author
Robert GARDNER
(UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Co-author
Greg CROSS
(University of Chicago)
