University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
CCR
Center for
Computational Research
Type 2 Configuration
Grid Server
Platform
Server
Node Server
Grid Server
SSH Tunnel
Type 2
Firewall
Cluster Configuration
nGrid Server communicates with
Platform Server that only
has an internal IP address through SSH tunnels on a firewall
nPlatform Server communicates with
Node Servers that process
Grid Server tasks
nAll Nodes are of the same OS architecture (Linux, AIX, Solaris, etc.), but processor
class may be different (PIII-Xeon, Pwr2-Pwr3, Ultra3-Ultra2i, etc.)