SDSC National Allocations
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SDSC provides expert assistance through the Advanced Support Program, a variety of data resources for long- and short-term storage and for publication of data collections, and computational time on the TeraGrid IA-64 Linux cluster. Requests for startup and education allocations are quick, with turnaround time from request to acceptance of only a few days. Requests for larger, production allocations are reviewed according to merit by a committee of computational scientists from many disciplines and from institutions across the country. The following table will guide you through our allocation process.
- National users with computing allocations automatically obtain an archival storage allocation with access to SDSC's High-Performance Storage System (HPSS) and SAM Quick File System (SAM-QFS). For a storage-only allocation, see the table below.
- University of California researchers, please see the AAP pages for resources and request procedure.
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Available Resources through TeraGrid
Advanced Support
Advanced support provides collaboration between experts on the SDSC staff and users of TeraGrid computational and data resources to identify and pursue opportunities to improve their codes. Users may request this resource along with their computational or data resources request. For details about this program, see the Advanced Support Program on the TeraGrid Web site.
Database, Collections Disk Space, Dual-Site HPSS Archive and Tape Storage
In addition, any eligible researcher can request a data allocation (with or without a compute allocation) from SDSC that permits expanded access to SDSC's Data Central facilities for data collection hosting, database hosting and long-term archiving. These capabilities make it possible, for example, to share the data from computations or specialized data collections with colleagues or to publish data for access by the broader scientific community.
For details on the available hardware and software and the allocation process, see SDSC Data Central.
SDSC IA-64 Linux Cluster
Also called the TeraGrid Cluster, this resource consists of IBM cluster nodes with dual Intel Itanium 2 processors connected by Myricom's Myrinet. Each node of SDSC's IA-64 Cluster has a Fibre Channel connection to a multi-TB GPFS, giving the cluster exceptional parallel I/O performance for the most data-intensive computations.
