General information about the I2Lab
I2Lab
is an effort to combine research in computer science with research in science,
engineering, medicine, and humanities, in need of computing. Computer
simulation, data mining, computer-controlled data acquisition and analysis
systems, are only a few of the techniques used across many areas of research.
I2Lab aims to create at UCF a community of computer-savvy researcher teams
consisting of domain-scientists and computer scientists capable to solve
complex research problems using parallel computers. I2Lab does not have either the resources, or
the desire to become a computing center;
Some
of the parallel systems connected to the I2Lab grid are totally dedicated to
community use, others belong to research groups and will be connected to the
grid by mutual agreements. As of May 1st, 2007 the I2Lab consists of:
- The two I2Lab clusters,
Euler and
Hilbert belong to the first group;
- The shared memory machine of the Nanotechnology Center (temporarily named Nano)
- The cluster belonging to the Structural Biology Group (Boticelli)
- The systems acquired by the Physics department (discovery).
I2Lab
will support:
- A unique user id allowing a user to access all systems connected to the grid.
- A data server of some 10 Tbytes.
- Information about the hardware and the system software
(compilers, scientific libraries, communication libraries, etc.) of each
system.
- Information about Grid software in the public domain.
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- Tools for performance optimization of applications.
- Documentation for application development using MPI with sample code.
Other items may be available if requested.