University at Buffalo
The State University of  New York
CCR
Center for Computational Research
Extensible TeraGrid Facility (ETF)
NCSA: Compute Intensive
SDSC: Data Intensive
PSC: Compute Intensive
IA64
IA64
Pwr4
EV68
IA32
IA32
EV7
IA64
Sun
10 TF IA-64
128 large memory nodes
230 TB Disk Storage
GPFS and data mining
4 TF IA-64
DB2, Oracle Servers
500 TB Disk Storage
6 PB Tape Storage
1.1 TF Power4
6 TF EV68
71 TB Storage
0.3 TF EV7 shared-memory
150 TB Storage Server
1.25 TF IA-64
96 Viz nodes
20 TB Storage
0.4 TF IA-64
IA32 Datawulf
80 TB Storage
Extensible Backplane Network
LA
Hub
Chicago
Hub
IA32
Storage Server
Disk Storage
Cluster
Shared Memory
Visualization
Cluster
LEGEND
30 Gb/s
IA64
30 Gb/s
30 Gb/s
30 Gb/s
30 Gb/s
Sun
Sun
ANL: Visualization
Caltech: Data collection analysis
40 Gb/s
Backplane Router
Figure courtesy of
Rob Pennington, NCSA