TeraGrid
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TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. Deployment of TeraGrid was completed in September 2004, and as of April 2006 provides over 100 teraflops of computing power and over 3 petabytes of rotating storage, and specialized data analysis and visualization resources into production, interconnected at 10-30 gigabits/second via a dedicated national network.
TeraGrid is coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with the Resource Provider sites that participated in the TeraGrid construction project from 2001 through 2004.
TeraGrid History
The TeraGrid project was launched by the National Science Foundation in August 2001 with $53 million in funding to four sites: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.In October 2002, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh joined the TeraGrid as major new partners when NSF announced $35 million in supplementary funding. The TeraGrid network was transformed through the ETF project from a 4-site mesh to a dual-hub backbone network with connection points in Los Angeles and at the Starlight facilities in Chicago.
In October 2003, NSF awarded $10 million to add four sites to TeraGrid as well as to establish a third network hub, in Atlanta. These new sites were Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Purdue University, Indiana University, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin.
TeraGrid construction was also made possible through key corporate partnerships with IBM, Intel Corporation, Qwest Communications, Juniper, Myricom, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Oracle Corporation.
TeraGrid construction was completed in October 2004, at which time the TeraGrid facility began full production.
In August 2005, NSF awarded $148M for a five-year program to operate and enhance the TeraGrid facility, with eight resource provider awards and a system integration award (the Grid Infrastructure Group at the University of Chicago).
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