Computing & Storage
SDSC supports several of America's largest, fastest, and most capable research-oriented computational environments in fulfilling its mission to develop and apply technology to advance science. Since SDSC's machines are a national resource, allocations are assigned on the basis of scientific merit and on the inability of other, less-capable computing sites to perform the work.
SDSC also maintains a diverse array of database, computing, storage, and Web server resources dedicated to specific programs and internal development efforts. These include projects in bioinformatics research and services, data mining, digital libraries, and software development for grids and clusters. SDSC runs 125 websites that serve 13 million page views from 250,000 users per month.
| System | Processors | Memory (Gigabytes) | Disk Storage (Terabytes) | Peak Performance (Teraflops) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataStar (Allocated Research) |
IBM p-Series (2528 Power4+ CPUs) |
7,300 | 180 | 15.6 |
| TeraGrid (Allocated Research) |
IBM Cluster (532 Itanium2 CPUs) |
1056 | 68 | 4.4 |
| Intimidata (Blue Gene eServer) |
6144 PowerPC CPUs | 1536 | 25 | 17.2 |
| GPFS-WAN (Storage Management) |
IBM Power 5 (16 p575 nodes with 8 cores) |
256 | 700 | 15.6 |
| SAM-QFS (Archive Tape Storage Management) |
Sunfire 15000 (72 UltraSPARC3 CPUs) |
288 | 400 (in SAN) |
.15 |
| HPSS Archive (Tape Storage Management) |
IBM p-Series (64 Power4+, 32 PPC CPUs) |
256 | 55 (25,000 Tape) |
.3 |
| RockStar Cluster (Research Applications) |
Sun V60x (258 Intel Xeon CPUs) |
256 | 4.6 | 1.445 |
| Meteor Cluster (Rocks Software Development) |
Various (118 Pentium3 CPUs) |
50 | .45 | 0.110 |
| Wild WestClusters (Rocks Software Testing) |
Various (8 Itanium2, 50 Pentium CPUs) |
25 | .21 | N/A |
| Oracle Systems (Database Servers) |
2 Sun HPC4800s (8 UltraSPARC3 CPUs) |
64 | 6 | N/A |
| Thor (Bioinformatics) |
Sun HPC12000 (36 UltraSPARC3 CPUs) |
192 | 8 | N/A |
| Biology Workbench/LIPID MAPS (Bioinformatics) |
Sun HPC 6500, Sun V880, 6 Sun E420s (32 UltraSPARC CPUs) |
16 | 2.2 | N/A |
| Protein Data Bank (Bioinformatics) |
2 Sun HPC4000s, 2 Sun E450s (16 UltraSPARC CPUs) |
16 | .628 | N/A |
| Web Farm (Web Services) |
10 Dual-Processor Sun & Dell Servers | 40 | 3.2 (local) |
N/A |
