Final Technical Report

The Net100 project was motivated by complaints from computational scientists and researchers at DOE laboratories who were frequently unable to transfer data across the country at appropriate available bandwidth rates. Many high-performance distributed computing applications transfer large volumes of data over wide area networks and require data rates on the order of gigabits per second. Even though Internet backbone speeds have increased considerably in recent years, distributed applications are rarely able to take full advantage of these new high-capacity networks. The goal of the Net100 project was to try to improve the network performance of scientific applications without requiring the intervention of a network expert. The main objective was to have the operating system dynamically tune network flows so the application and the scientist would not have to be network-aware. The Net100 project sought to accomplish this by augmenting the tools and technology developed as a part of the NSF-sponsored Web100 project

The Next Generation Research Grid: A Path Forward: Final Report

The TeraGrid Planning Process was funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure through a grant to the University of Michigan's School of Information (UM-SI). Ann Zimmerman and Thomas A. Finholt served as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI, respectively. The role of the UM-SI was to support and facilitate a planning process to be led by a steering committee representative of key stakeholder communities and with diverse expertise.This is the final report of the TeraGrid Planning Process Steering Committee. TeraGrid currently uses high-speed network connections to integrate high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and experimental facilities at eleven resource provider sites around the country. To address changes that are already occurring and are anticipated to take place in high-performance computing (HPC) and computational science over the next 5-7 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a grant to the University of Michigan's School of Information (UM-SI) to facilitate a planning process to help guide the future evolution of TeraGrid. The TeraGrid Planning Process Steering Committee, representative of key stakeholder communities, was convened to lead the planning process. Our committee was charged to provide a report to NSF and to stakeholders that identifies options for the definition, design, and implementation of the next generation of the NSF TeraGrid program. In conducting our charge, we considered the results of a series of planning workshops, hosted “town hall” meetings, solicited position papers from current TeraGrid users and other national and international stakeholders, examined relevant reports and other documents, incorporated information from the TeraGrid Evaluation Research Study, interacted individually with stakeholders, and deliberated extensively. We strongly endorse a next phase for the TeraGrid program, which we refer to hereafter as the Next Generation Research Grid (NGRG). The NGRG should have an unwavering focus on science: advancing and accelerating science and engineering progress across a broad front.National Science FoundationOCI-0724300https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138144/1/Next Generation Research Grid_A Path Forward_Final Report_August2008.pdfDescription of Next Generation Research Grid_A Path Forward_Final Report_August2008.pdf : Final report from the TeraGrid Planning Proces