NCAR TeraGrid integration efforts
Initial integration of NCAR computing resources with the TeraGrid is complete: frost has been an operational TeraGrid resource since August 1, 2007, and it provides up to 4.5 million CPU hours annually to the TeraGrid research community.
NCAR continues its efforts to develop and integrate other resources, primarily data storage, management, and visualization for the TeraGrid. NCAR operates a 100 TB Lustre storage testbed and is participating with other TeraGrid sites in evaluating Lustre-WAN. NCAR has a provisional visualization resource, called twister, to provide experimental VAPOR 3D visualization capabilities across the TeraGrid.
NCAR is also in the process of acquiring and deploying a new Earth System Grid (ESG) server cluster to provide secure ESG services over the 10 Gbps link to other TeraGrid sites such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory. NCAR has also acquired and is deploying an HPSS tape archive system for evaluation over the next few months, and intends to integrate it with the frost TeraGrid resource.