Computational Resources and Documentation

The more than 22 high-performance and high-throughput computational systems offered here are an unprecedented resource provided to the American research community by the National Science Foundation.

Systems documentation is the backbone of information provided to users of systems for computing, archiving, and visualizing as well as for determining system status and technical specifications. While each site offers its own flavor of information delivery and formatting, all are committed to giving online information that is accurate and current.

The following table provides a technical summary of the systems and user information to help you get started. For more information about non-CPU resources, such as database and data-collection hosting, please see Data Resources.

Documentation Legend:

= Technical Summary = Recommended Use Guidelines = General Information

= Getting Started = User Guide = Tutorial

Site	Computational Resource & Technical Summary	Documentation	Archival Storage
TeraGrid Computational Resources
ANL	TeraGrid Cluster 198 processors (Xeon) and 124 (Itanium 2) 224 GB total memory largest filesystem --available soon nominal available SUs/year:	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   ANL TeraGrid Guide	SRB GridFTP to UniTree
CalTech	TeraGrid Cluster processors (Itanium 2): 32 (HP) & 72 (IBM) 96 GB total memory largest filesystem --available soon nominal available SUs/year:	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   Caltech TeraGrid Guide
NCSA	TeraGrid Cluster 1774 processors (Itanium 2) 2048 GB total memory largest filesystem --available soon tg-login.ncsa.teragrid.org	Teragrid Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   NCSA TeraGrid Guide
PSC	TCS1 (Lemieux) 3000 processors (Alpha) 3 TB total memory largest filesystem: 9 TB nominal available SUs/year: up to 20M lemieux.psc.edu	Lemieux Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   PSC's TeraGrid Resources   Lemieux User Information
	HP Marvel (Rachel) 128 processors (Alpha EV7) 512 GB total memory largest filesystem: 6 TB nominal available SUs/year: up to 670 k rachel.psc.edu	Rachel Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   PSC's TeraGrid Resources   Rachel User Information
SDSC	TeraGrid Cluster 512 processors (Itanium 2) 1024 GB total memory largest filesystem: 100 TB (shared) nominal available SUs/year: 4M tg-login.sdsc.teragrid.org	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   SDSC TeraGrid Guide
	TeraGrid IBM p690 224 processors (POWER4), 32-way SMP 896 GB total memory largest filesystem: 100 TB (shared) nominal available SUs/year: 500,000 name: dslogin.sdsc.edu	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   DataStar User Guide
TeraGrid Phase 2 Resources
IU	AVIDD-I64 Cluster 32 processors (Itanium 2) tg-login1.iu.teragrid.org	Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information	SRB GridFTP to UniTree
ORNL	TeraGrid processors: available soon GB total memory: available soon largest filesystem -- available soon nominal available SUs/year: available soon machine name:	Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information
Purdue	TeraGrid IBM SP 320 processors (Power3) 256 GB total memory largest filesystem: available soon nominal available SUs/year: available soon tg-login-aix.purdue.teragrid.org	Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information
	TeraGrid Linux Clusters 700 processors (heterogeneous) OS: Debian/Sarge GB total memory: available soon largest filesystem: available soon nominal available SUs/year: available soon tg-login-linux.purdue.teragrid.org	Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information
TACC	Cray-Dell Linux Cluster (Lonestar) 856 IA-32 processors (Pentium 4) 892 GB total Memory largest filesystem: 15 TB nominal available SUs/year: 2.2M lonestar.tacc.utexas.edu	Lonestar User Guide   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information
TeraGrid Visualization Resources
PSC	TCS1 (Lemieux) 3000 processors (Alpha) 3 TB total memory largest filesystem: 9 TB nominal available SUs/year: up to 20M tg-login1.lemieux.psc.edu	Lemieux Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   PSC's TeraGrid Resources   Lemieux User Information	SRB GridFTP to UniTree
TACC	Sun Large-Scale Visualization (Maverick) 128 processors (UltraSPARC IV) 512 GB total memory largest filesystem: 500 GB (shared) nominal available SUs/year: 210k name: maverick.tacc.utexas.edu	Maverick User Guide Coming Soon   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   Meet Maverick (An Introduction)
ANL	4 processors (Xeon) 32 GB total memory tg-viz-login.uc.teragrid.org	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   TeraGrid User Information   ANL TeraGrid Guide
Other Computational Resources
NCSA	SGI Altix (Cobalt) 1024 processors (Itanium 2) 3 TB globally accessible memory largest filesystem: available soon nominal avalable SUs/year: 8M cobalt.ncsa.uiuc.edu	NCSA's Cobalt System	UniTree
	IBM p690 (Copper) 384 processors (POWER4) 1536 GB total memory largest filesystem: 2.6 TB nominal available SUs/year: 3M cu.ncsa.uiuc.edu	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   IBM pSeries 690 User Documentation
	Xeon Linux Cluster (Tungsten) 2688 processors (Xeon) 4 TB total memory largest filesystem: available soon nominal available SUs/year: 22M tungsten.ncsa.uiuc.edu	Technical Summary   Xeon Cluster User Documentation
SDSC	DataStar IBM p655 1408 processors (POWER4), 8-way nodes total memory: 2,816 GB largest filesystem: 100 TB (shared) nominal available SUs/year: 13M name: dslogin.sdsc.edu	DataStar User Guide	HPSS
	DataStar IBM p690 128 processors (POWER4), 32-way SMP total memory: 640 GB largest filesystem: 100 TB (shared) nominal available SUs/year: 1M name: dslogin.sdsc.edu	DataStar User Guide
PSC	TCS1 (Lemieux) 3000 processors (Alpha) 3 TB total memory largest filesystem: 9 TB nominal available SUs/year: lemieux.psc.edu	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   Lemieux Information	FAR
	HP Marvel (Rachel) 128 processors (Alpha EV7) 512 GB total memory largest filesystem: 6 TB nominal available SUs/year: up to 670 k rachel.psc.edu	Technical Summary   Recommended Use Guidelines   Rachel User Information

   

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