RAL CCLRC installs 850 Gflop/s 53 Tbytes clusters from NEC-ClusterVision consortiumHoofddorp 23 June 2003 NEC High Performance Computing Europe (HPCE) and ClusterVision have completed a large compute and storage cluster installation at the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC)'s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire (UK). The 53 TByte storage and 160 processor, 850 Gflop/s compute clusters were installed for the e-Science Centre of the UK CCLRC to boost its capacity to store and process data for the particle physics Grid project GridPP.
The new storage cluster at RAL CCLRC comprises 11 dual Intel Xeon servers, 22 Infortrend IDE RAID storage units and 264 high-capacity hard drives. The total storage capacity of the cluster will be 53 TeraBytes.
The new compute cluster contains 80 rack-mounted servers with 160 Intel Xeon 2.67 GHz CPUs with a theoretical peak performance of 850 Gflop/s.
Both clusters were delivered and installed by ClusterVision in a short time frame as the capacity of the previous compute and storage facilities had reached its maximum usage. Dr Andrew Sansum, Technical Manager for the GridPP computing service at CCLRC, said: "The NEC-ClusterVision consortium was selected from a large number of potential suppliers for their proven experience with similar large-scale implementations and their well-thought-through design which also offered the best price/performance."
The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) is an independent, non-departmental public body of the UK Government's Office of Science and Technology. The CCLRC operates three world class institutions supporting the research community by providing access to advanced facilities and extensive scientific and technical expertise.
GridPP is a collaboration of particle physicists and computing scientists from the UK and CERN. Scientists involved in GridPP expect to play a major role in the analysis of data from the LHC and the exciting discoveries
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