TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications

Charlie Catlett; William E. Allcock; Phil Andrews; Ruth Aydt; Ray Bair; Natasha Balac; Bryan Banister; Trish Barker; Mark Bartelt; Pete Beckman; Francine Berman; Gary Bertoline; Alan Blatecky; Jay Boisseau; Jim Bottum; Sharon Brunett; Julian Bunn; Michelle L Butler; David Carver; John Cobb; Tim Cockerill; Peter F. Couvares; Maytal Dahan; Diana Diehl; Thom Dunning; Ian Foster; Kelly Gaither; Dennis Gannon; Sebastien Goasguen; Michael Grobe; Dave Hart; Matt Heinzel; Chris Hempel; Wendy Huntoon; Joseph Insley; Christopher Jordan; Ivan Judson; Anke Kamrath; Nicholas Karonis; Carl Kesselman; Patricia Kovatch; Lex Lane; Scott Lathrop; Michael Levine; David Lifka; Lee Liming; Miron Livny; Rich Loft; Doru Marcusiu; Jim Marsteller; Stuart Martin; Scott McCaulay; John McGee; Laura McGinnis; Michael McRobbie; Paul Messina; Reagan Moore; Richard Moore; J. P. Navarro; Jeff Nichols; Michael E. Papka; Rob Pennington; Greg Pike; Jim Pool; Raghu Reddy; Dan Reed; Tony Rimovsky; Eric Roberts; Ralph Roskies; Sergiu Sanielevici; J. Ray Scott; Anurag Shankar; Mark Sheddon; Mike Showerman; Derek Simmel; Abe Singer; Dane Skow; Shava Smallen; Warren Smith; Carol Song; Rick Stevens; Craig Stewart; Robert B. Stock; Nathan Stone; John W Towns; Tomislav Urban; Mike Vildibill; Edward Walker; Von Welch; Nancy Wilkins-Diehr; Roy Williams; Linda Winkler; Lan Zhao; Ann Zimmerman

TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications

Charlie Catlett, William E. Allcock, Phil Andrews, Ruth Aydt, Ray Bair, Natasha Balac, Bryan Banister, Trish Barker, Mark Bartelt, Pete Beckman, Francine Berman, Gary Bertoline, Alan Blatecky, Jay Boisseau, Jim Bottum, Sharon Brunett, Julian Bunn, Michelle L Butler, David Carver, John CobbTim Cockerill, Peter F. Couvares, Maytal Dahan, Diana Diehl, Thom Dunning, Ian Foster, Kelly Gaither, Dennis Gannon, Sebastien Goasguen, Michael Grobe, Dave Hart, Matt Heinzel, Chris Hempel, Wendy Huntoon, Joseph Insley, Christopher Jordan, Ivan Judson, Anke Kamrath, Nicholas Karonis, Carl Kesselman, Patricia Kovatch, Lex Lane, Scott Lathrop, Michael Levine, David Lifka, Lee Liming, Miron Livny, Rich Loft, Doru Marcusiu, Jim Marsteller, Stuart Martin, Scott McCaulay, John McGee, Laura McGinnis, Michael McRobbie, Paul Messina, Reagan Moore, Richard Moore, J. P. Navarro, Jeff Nichols, Michael E. Papka, Rob Pennington, Greg Pike, Jim Pool, Raghu Reddy, Dan Reed, Tony Rimovsky, Eric Roberts, Ralph Roskies, Sergiu Sanielevici, J. Ray Scott, Anurag Shankar, Mark Sheddon, Mike Showerman, Derek Simmel, Abe Singer, Dane Skow, Shava Smallen, Warren Smith, Carol Song, Rick Stevens, Craig Stewart, Robert B. Stock, Nathan Stone, John W Towns, Tomislav Urban, Mike Vildibill, Edward Walker, Von Welch, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Roy Williams, Linda Winkler, Lan Zhao, Ann Zimmerman

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TeraGrid is a national-scale computational science facility supported through a partnership among thirteen institutions, with funding from the US National Science Foundation [1]. Initially created through a Major Research Equipment Facilities Construction (MREFC [2]) award in 2001, the TeraGrid facility began providing production computing, storage, visualization, and data collections services to the national science, engineering, and education community in January 2004. In August 2005 NSF funded a five-year program to operate, enhance, and expand the capacity and capabilities of the TeraGrid facility to meet the growing needs of the science and engineering community through 2010. This paper describes TeraGrid in terms of the structures, architecture, technologies, and services that are used to provide national-scale, open cyberinfrastructure. The focus of the paper is specifically on the technology approach and use of middleware for the purposes of discussing the impact of such approaches on scientific use of computational infrastructure. While there are many individual science success stories, we do not focus on these in this paper. Similarly, there are many software tools and systems deployed in TeraGrid but our coverage is of the basic system middleware and is not meant to be exhaustive of all technology efforts within TeraGrid. We look in particular at growth and events during 2006 as the user population expanded dramatically and reached an initial 'tipping point' with respect to adoption of new 'grid' capabilities and usage modalities.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	High Performance Computing and Grids in Action
Publisher	IOS Press BV
Pages	225-249
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Print)	9781586038397
State	Published - 2008

Publication series

Name	Advances in Parallel Computing
Volume	16
ISSN (Print)	0927-5452

Keywords

Grids
computational science
distributed computing
high-performance computing
infrastructure

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Catlett, C., Allcock, W. E., Andrews, P., Aydt, R., Bair, R., Balac, N., Banister, B., Barker, T., Bartelt, M., Beckman, P., Berman, F., Bertoline, G., Blatecky, A., Boisseau, J., Bottum, J., Brunett, S., Bunn, J., Butler, M. L., Carver, D., ... Zimmerman, A. (2008). TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications. In High Performance Computing and Grids in Action (pp. 225-249). (Advances in Parallel Computing; Vol. 16). IOS Press BV.

TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications. / Catlett, Charlie; Allcock, William E.; Andrews, Phil et al.
High Performance Computing and Grids in Action. IOS Press BV, 2008. p. 225-249 (Advances in Parallel Computing; Vol. 16).

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Catlett, C, Allcock, WE, Andrews, P, Aydt, R, Bair, R, Balac, N, Banister, B, Barker, T, Bartelt, M, Beckman, P, Berman, F, Bertoline, G, Blatecky, A, Boisseau, J, Bottum, J, Brunett, S, Bunn, J, Butler, ML, Carver, D, Cobb, J, Cockerill, T, Couvares, PF, Dahan, M, Diehl, D, Dunning, T, Foster, I, Gaither, K, Gannon, D, Goasguen, S, Grobe, M, Hart, D, Heinzel, M, Hempel, C, Huntoon, W, Insley, J, Jordan, C, Judson, I, Kamrath, A, Karonis, N, Kesselman, C, Kovatch, P, Lane, L, Lathrop, S, Levine, M, Lifka, D, Liming, L, Livny, M, Loft, R, Marcusiu, D, Marsteller, J, Martin, S, McCaulay, S, McGee, J, McGinnis, L, McRobbie, M, Messina, P, Moore, R, Moore, R, Navarro, JP, Nichols, J, Papka, ME, Pennington, R, Pike, G, Pool, J, Reddy, R, Reed, D, Rimovsky, T, Roberts, E, Roskies, R, Sanielevici, S, Scott, JR, Shankar, A, Sheddon, M, Showerman, M, Simmel, D, Singer, A, Skow, D, Smallen, S, Smith, W, Song, C, Stevens, R, Stewart, C, Stock, RB, Stone, N, Towns, JW, Urban, T, Vildibill, M, Walker, E, Welch, V, Wilkins-Diehr, N, Williams, R, Winkler, L, Zhao, L & Zimmerman, A 2008, TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications. in High Performance Computing and Grids in Action. Advances in Parallel Computing, vol. 16, IOS Press BV, pp. 225-249.

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