Resources for High Performance Computing
SDSC supports several of America's largest, fastest,
and most capable research-oriented computational environments
in fulfilling its mission to develop and apply technology
to advance science. Since SDSC's machines are a national
resource, allocations are assigned on the basis of scientific
merit and on the inability of other, less-capable computing
sites to perform the work. SDSC also maintains a diverse
array of database, computing, storage, and Web server
resources dedicated to specific programs and internal
development efforts. These include projects in bioinformatics
research and services, data mining, digital libraries,
and software development for grids and clusters. SDSC
runs 125 websites that serve 13 million page views from
250,000 users per month.
Computing Resources
DataStar: Offering 15.6 teraflops
of computing power, this IBM supercomputer is SDSC's
largest machine, with a configuration especially well-suited
for handling data-intensive computing.
Related Links:
DataStar
User Guide
TeraGrid Cluster. Built over
the last four years, the TeraGrid is the world's largest
most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for
open scientific research. SDSC leads the TeraGrid data
and knowledge management effort by deploying a 4.1 teraflops
Linux cluster. DataStar is also available to TeraGrid
users.
Related Links:
TeraGrid
TeraGrid
User Info
SDSC
TeraGrid site
Intimidata: SDSC was the first academic
institution to install and offer allocated time on the
IBM BlueGene eServer. Nicknamed Intimidata, the single-rack
server has 2048 processors offering 5.7 teraflops of
compute power and a total memory of 512 possible gigabytes.
The system also offers the maximum possible ratio of
input/output nodes to compute nodes to support data-intensive
computing in a compact footprint.
Related Links:
Intimidata
User Guide
Data Resources
HPSS: SDSC's central long-term data
storage system is one of the world's largest IBM High
Performance Storage System (HPSS) units, which currently
holds more than two petabytes (or two million gigabytes)
of data. It has the capacity to store six petabytes
of data and files are being added at an average rate
of 10 terabytes per month.
Related Links:
HPSS
User Guide
SAM-QFS: A 72-processor Sun Microsystems
SunFire 15K high-end server provides a gateway to 400,000
gigabytes of networked disk storage for data-oriented
applications.
Related Links:
SAM-QFS
User Guide
Online Storage Area Network (SAN):
Offers more than 1.4 petabytes of online disk storage
interconnected over 1500 SAN ports supporting high-performance
computing system archival storage and a wide-area parallel
file system.
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