Resources & Services
SDSC is launching a wide-ranging project called the Triton Resource, a high-impact, massive data analysis and preservation system that will accelerate innovation and discovery through the use of leading-edge research cyberinfrastructure at SDSC. The Triton Resource will provide supercomputing capabilities in three key areas:
- A high-performance storage system, called Data Oasis, which will assist in the practical manipulation of data across high-bandwidth paths to researchers throughout UC San Diego and the UC system.
- The Petascale Data Analysis Facility, capable of analyzing data from petascale computers, where one ‘petaflop' of compute power equals one quadrillion calculations per second.
- A scalable, shared resource ‘condo' cluster, or a group of linked computers, equipped with standard compute nodes but enhanced memory capability.
SDSC serves as a data-intensive site lead in the National Science Foundation-funded TeraGrid, a multi-year effort to build and deploy the first national-scale grid infrastructure for open scientific research. The Center's supercomputing resources, which included a 4.1 teraflop Linux Cluster, are part of the national TeraGrid distributed system.
The Center 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 Web sites that serve 13 million page views from 250,000 users per month.
