Linux cluster for grid computing at Ohio SUpercomputer CenterMountain View 26 January 2001 SGI will install a production cluster based on Intel Itanium processors at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). The 146-processor system will provide the Ohio research and education community with the world's largest system using the new Itanium architecture. Part of the cluster will be devoted to the US National Computational Grid Project.
The new cluster will replace the existing cluster of 32 SGI 1400L
servers, each with four Intel Pentium III Xeon processors at 500 MHz.
To help it decide who will receive the processors from the original
cluster, OSC will call for proposals from the Ohio academic community. OSC
will assist faculty members in building smaller clusters in their own
research labs. The systems will be provided with one-year hardware and
software maintenance.
To encourage the spread of PCC in Ohio, OSC has developed a program called
Cluster Ohio. The project provides statewide software licenses for
compilers, debugging, math science libraries and performance tools at no
cost to Ohio faculty. Ohio's research community will be able to access the
new Itanium processor-based cluster through OARnet, a division of OSC.
OARnet is the state's high-performance network providing Internet
connectivity to more than a million people in the state of Ohio. The new
PCC system will comprise 73 dual-processor servers with the Itanium
architecture that will be interconnected with Myrinet2000 hardware.
Each server will have two Itanium processors at 733 MHz, 2MB secondary
cache per CPU, 4GB of SDRAM memory and 36GB of disk space.
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