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The TeraGrid: An essential tool for 21st century science Craig Stewart, Associate Dean, Research Technologies Chief Operating Officer, Pervasive Technology Labs Chair, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing IU TeraGrid Resource Partner PI Indiana University stewart@ 17 February 2008 Outline Why this workshop may be valuable to you (Time consuming computations on the critical path of you research? Need more storage? Do you provide scientific services/resources over the Web?) What is cyberinfrastructure? Examples of TeraGrid uses More detailed info about the TeraGrid Architecture Storage Computation Science Gateway use and support, including Visualization Data source and service hosting How can you get going using the TeraGrid? Resources are available to use Help using the system is available At the end of the talk we will help those who wish (and have laptops here) start the application process. You need your CV to finish the whole process, but you can do some of the work and save it NB: ‘Tufte was here’ What is Cyberinfrastructure? Indiana University’s definition of Cyberinfrastructure: “Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems, data storage systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization environments, and people, all linked together by software and high performance networks to improve research productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise possible.” This and other information in Wikipedia definition of Cyberinfrastructure Some basic terms TFLOPS - Trillions of FLOating Point operations per Second (mathematical operations) (10^12) Processor hour - one hour of processor (CPU) utilization TB - terabyte; PB - petabyte Parallel programming MPI - Message Passing Interface WSRF - Web Services Resource Framework What is the TeraGrid? An instrument (cyberinfrastructure) that delivers high-end IT resources - storage, computation, visualization, and data/service hosting - almost all of which are UNIX-based under the covers; some hi