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CASPUR
(Consortium for Supercomputer Applications for University and
Research)
CASPUR is a nonprofit inter-university Computer Centre established
on June 5, 1992. It is funded by the Italian Ministry for Education,
Universities and Research (MIUR), and by some participating Universities
(currently: Politecnico di Bari , Università di Bari,
Università di Lecce, Università di Roma "La Sapienza",
Università Roma Tre, Università della Tuscia, Istituto
Universitario Scienze Motorie, Università di Foggia).
Its main mission is to provide modern computing facilities and
competence in the fields of high-performance computing and information
technology for Italian universities and affiliated research organizations.
CASPUR has conventions and collaborations with Italian and international
research and educational organizations like:
- INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
- ENEA (Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment)
- INGV (National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology)
- CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Presently CASPUR employs 60 people (56 technicians and 4 administrative
employees) and grants about 20 scholarships. The hardware platforms
are based on last-generation processors like IBM Power4, HP
Alpha EV6x and EV7, Intel Itanium 2. All the systems are highly
integrated. This allows the users to access any system with
the same account and to have their data available everywhere.
CASPUR carries on an advanced experimental activity in the networking
(IPV6, wireless) and storage (SAN, NAS, geographical file-systems
like AFS, SCSI over IP) sectors and it is often required by vendors
to test and evaluate their hardware and software products.
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CEA/DAM
Ile de France
The CEA/DAM Ile de France Center is located in Bruyères
le Châtel, France, about 20 miles from Paris. This Research
Center for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA/DAM) is specially
devoted to simulation and environmental surveillance. To conduct
its numerical simulations, the Research Center owns an important
HPC complex, including a 5 TeraFlops cluster of SMP systems (640
AlphaServer ES45 nodes), TERA, and a 2 TeraFlops cluster (200
AlphaServer ES45 nodes), dedicated to collaborations with academic
research and with industry (CCRT).
The Center has based the Ter@tec project around this HPC
complex, the goals of which are:
- to facilitate the use of HPC for
industrial companies, through collaborations and sharing
the complex capacity,
- to develop academic research and
collaborations especially in HPC technologies, algorithms,
and simulation applications,
- to interact with HPC vendors, both
in specification and tuning of very high-performance
HPC platforms, to facilitate the setting up of vendors
of competent platforms close to CEA/DAM Ile de France
The CEA Ter@tec project now includes:
- Four major user partner companies,
who own more than 25% of the CCRT.
- Two joint-venture laboratories in
partnership with two major universities, one dedicated
to HPC technologies, the other dedicated to algorithms
and applications.
- A partnership between HP and CEA under
the umbrella of the HP-CEA agreement (March 6, 2002), including
more than 5 important items for research and development
in HPC.
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High
Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, HLRS
(details in preparation)
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Indiana University
Indiana University is one of the oldest state universities
in the Midwest and one of the largest universities in the
United States, with more than 100,000 students, faculty and
staff on eight campuses. IU is home to a sophisticated and
powerful environment for research and academic computing.
The university manages the operations centers for Abilene,
the backbone network of Internet2, TransPAC, a network connection
between the U.S. and the Asia Pacific region, the Science,
Technology and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) in
Chicago and Euro-Link.
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Naples
branch of National Research Council (CNR) Institute for HPC
and Networking (ICAR-NA)
Primary aims of the Naples branch of the CNR Institute
for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-NA),
former Center for Research on Parallel Computing and Supercomputers
(CPS), include:
- Development and analysis of High-Performance
and Grid Computing methodologies and software tools driven
by large-scale scientific applications
- Analysis and evaluation of hardware and
software advanced environments for HPC
ICAR-NA is also concerned with the diffusion and transfer
of know-how in the field of HPC, through the organization
of conferences, seminars, and courses, and the training of
PhD students and young researchers. ICAR-NA conducts some
basic research programs as long-term activities in the field
of HPC and participates in a variety of national and international
applied research projects in various fields of Science and
Technology, where results and know-how from basic programs
are exploited.
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Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Center for Computational Science
(CCS)
DOE multi-mission lab
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PDC
(Paralleldatorcentrum) of the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH)
KTH, established in 1827, is one of Europe's top schools
for science and engineering education and research, graduating
one-third of Sweden's undergraduate and graduate engineers
in the full range of engineering disciplines. Enrollment is
about 17,500 students, of which about 1,400 are pursuing PhD
studies.
PDC is the lead center for high-performance computing and
visualization for the Swedish academic community. PDC is collaborating
with five other HPC centers in Sweden within the SweGrid
project, to establish a Swedish Grid infrastructure, a
major initiative within SNIC, the Swedish
National Infrastructure for Computing. PDC is also a founding
member of the Nordic
Grid Consortium (together with CSC, Helsinki and Parallab,
Bergen), and the European
Grid Support Center (together with the UK e-Science program
and CERN).
PDC, established in 1989, has extensive experience in providing
secure access and dependable service and training for high-end
state-of-the art environments for leading-edge computational
research in science and engineering. To accomplish this task
PDC has gained considerable experience in the development of
tools and systems for administering and managing novel high
performance computing environments for production, including
massively parallel computers (Thinking Machines), early clusters
(Digital and IBM), parallel/vector systems (Fujitsu), distributed
shared memory systems (SGI), and Intel- and AMD-based clusters.
PDC in collaboration with the Department of Numerical Analysis
and Computer Science (NADA) has developed an Open Source version
of Kerberos V (Heimdal)
delivered with Debian and Free BSD, and Open Source clients
for AFS (ARLA).
Among developed tools are schedulers/load levelers, file systems
for distributed environments, and a software system for administering
a cluster of currently 200 nodes, developed and deployed in
cooperation with the Stockholm
Bioinformatics Center.
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Texas Learning and Computation
Center
(details in preparation)
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University of Calabria
HPCC
Funded in 2001 by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
with the aim to provide hardware, software and expertise for
different applications of parallel supercomputing, HPCC is one
of the leading research institutes centred on parallel and distributed
processing research and development. HPCC is interdisciplinary
since it coordinates resources and competencies of different
scientific areas that are already active at the University of
Calabria. It aims to promote the diffusion and dissemination
of advanced techniques in the field of compute-intensive numerical
simulation and the production of tools, environments and infrastructures
for innovative technology transfer. Under the viewpoint of the
computing equipment, the interdisciplinary collaboration is achieved
and promoted by the establishment of a network of parallel multiprocessor
machines, all connected by a high-speed network (on site departmental
Grid).
The HPCC is one of the main sites of SPACI (Southern Partnership
for Advanced Computational Infrastructures), a partnership
between the University of Calabria, the University of Lecce,
and the University of Naples "Federico II".
The HPCC main activity fields are:
- A High Performance Computing Environment for Scientific
and Industrial Applications (Grid computing: architecture
and scheduling problems)
- Turbulence in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
- Models for Simulation of Acentric Complex Phenomena
- Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computational Optimization for Large-Scale Systems
(logistics and transportation)
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University of Karlsruhe
Computing Center (SSCK)
The university's computing center was founded in 1966 and
has always been considered one of the largest and most advanced
computing centers of German universities. Since the beginning
of the eighties supercomputers and high performance networks
have been operated here. The center was the first one in
Germany to introduce computer lecture halls and established
the first campus-wide high-speed glass fiber network in Europe.
Since then the university has become renowned for a top quality
supply of students and scientists in the field of most modern
computer and communications technology.
Major technical areas the University is working in include:
- High Performance Scientific Computing
- High-speed networking
- Large scale data services and distributed computing
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University of Lecce (ISUFI/CACT)
ISUFI/CACT (Center for Advanced Computational Technologies)
is devoted to advanced research in the area of High Performance,
Distributed, and Grid Computing. ISUFI/CACT is one of the
main sites of SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructures), a partnership between the University of
Calabria, the University of Lecce, and the University of
Naples "Federico II".
ISUFI/CACT is actively involved in both european (GRIDLAB,
EGEE) and national (GRID.IT) projects, its team regularly
attends GGF working groups and meetings, and it is involved
in several Grid technology development and application projects,
including:
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University of Utah Center
for High Performance Computing
The University of Utah's center for high performance computing
is a multi-departmental center providing compute cycles and
data access for scientific computing.
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