Research Data Storage Available to Researchers Throughout the U.S. via the TeraGrid

This is a preprint of a paper in the Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference (2006). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Many faculty members at small to mid-size colleges and universities do important, high quality research that requires significant storage. In many cases, such storage requirements are difficult to meet with local resources; even when local resources suffice, data integrity is best ensured by maintenance of a remote copy. Via the nationally-funded TeraGrid, Indiana University offers researchers at colleges and universities throughout the US the opportunity to easily store up to 1 TB of data within the IU data storage system. The TeraGrid is the National Science Foundation's flagship effort to create a national research cyberinfrastructure, and one key goal of the TeraGrid is to provide facilities that improve the productivity of the US research community generally. Providing facilities that improve the capacity and reliability of research data storage is an important part of this. This paper will describe the process for storing data at IU via the TeraGrid, and will in general discuss how this capability is part of a larger TeraGrid-wide data storage strategy.U's involvement in the TeraGrid, and the presentation of this material, is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. IU received a significant grant-in-kind as part of its initial deployment of the massive data storage system. The deployment of IU’s MDSS has also been supported by the Indiana Genomics Initiative and the Indiana METACyt Initiative, both supported through grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc; by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc.; and by NSF grants 0116050 and 0521433

Technical Report: TeraGrid eXtreme Digital Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Campus Bridging Requirements Elicitation Meeting

In an effort to systematically investigate requirements for TeraGrid XD, the XROADS collaboration held during 2009 a series of requirements elicitation meetings (REM) with small groups of stakeholders. This report summarizes the conduct of and results from a requirements elicitation meeting on the topics of campus bridging and campus cyberinfrastructure. The meeting’s goal was to develop a clearer and more functional definition of what the next phase of the TeraGrid should do to be a resource broadly useful to and used by university and college campuses throughout the US.This report depends very much on the prior involvement of several XROADS partners in the TeraGrid, which has been funded in part by the NSF via the following grant awards: 0504086, 0503697, and 0742145 to the University of Chicago; 0451237 and 0504075 to Indiana University; and 0122272, 0332113, 0451566, 0503944, 0910847 to the University of California San Diego

Application benchmark results for Big Red, an IBM e1350 BladeCenter Cluster

The purpose of this report is to present the results of benchmark tests with Big Red, an IBM e1350 BladeCenter Cluster. This report is particularly focused on providing details of system architecture and test run results in detail to allow for analysis in other reports and comparison with other systems, rather than presenting such analysis here

Technical Report: Acceptance Test for FutureGrid IBM iDataPlex at Indiana University (India)

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies that supported this work.Indiana University purchased an IBM iDataPlex system as part of the FutureGrid project (National Science Foundation Award 910812: FutureGrid: An Experimental, High-Performance Grid Test-bed, Geoffrey C. Fox, IU, Principal Investigator). This report includes a detailed system description, after which are details on the performance targets, the methods used to run acceptance tests, and the performance achieved.This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0910812 to Indiana University for "FutureGrid: An Experimental, High-Performance Grid Test-bed." This material is also supported in part by a grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to Indiana University to create the Pervasive Technology Institute, and by matching effort contributed by the Research Technologies division of University Information Technology Services

TeraGrid Early Operations Final Report

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0451237