TeraGrid

The NSF-funded TeraGrid is a powerful computing infrastructure for scientific research. Currently, it includes resources at eight partner sites, providing over 40 teraflops of computing power and almost 2 petabytes of rotating storage, interconnected at 10-30 Gbs via a dedicated national network. Argonne was one of the initial partners and is now involved in the coordination of the TeraGrid through the Grid Infrastructure Group at the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory leads the effort to deploy advanced distributed comopouting software, high-resolution rendering and remote visualization capabilities, and networks. This effort requires a 1-teraflop IBM Linux cluster with parallel visualization hardware.

In the News:

Itanium Linux servers to power $53 million NCSA computing grid project. InforWorld, August 10, 2001.

NSF awards $53 million supercomputing bid. CNET, August 9, 2001.

NSF Pledges $53 Million for a Distributed Terascale Facility. University of California, San Diego, August 9, 2001.

A Grid of Supercomputers. WiredNews, August 9, 2001.

NSF Awards $53 Million to Build Supercomputing Grid. Enterprise Systems.