Distributed national infrastructure with 12 sites

250+ Intel Itanium2 cpus in the core

An experimental installation includes 800+ Intel Itanium2 cpus with 4,5 TFLOPs of peak performance

Dedicated 1Gbps bandwidth provided by the Polish Optical Network PIONIER

The CLUSTERIX software developed as Open Source, and is based on the Globus Toolkit 2.4 plus web services

Gdańsk

Szczecin

Poznań

ZielonaGóra

Wrocław

Opole

Częstochowa

Kraków

Łódź

Lublin

Warszawa

Białystok

CLUSTERIX: National Cluster of Linux Systems

• Production-class grid infrastructure– Basic infrastructure consists of local Linux clusters with 64-bit

architecture connected by the Polish Optical Network PIONIER– Development of mechanisms and tools capable of management

of a distributed cluster with dynamically changing configuration

– Dynamic attachement of new local clusters with 32- and 64-bit architectures

– Taking into consideration local policies of administration within independent domains

• Development of grid middleware:– Data management – Resource management system with prediction, monitoring – Management of user accounts and virtual organizations– Network management, IPv6– Integrated end-user/administrator interface – Checkpointing

• Examples of applications:– Modeling transonic flows and design of advanced tip devices– FEM modeling of castings solidification– Prediction of protein structures and simulation of protein folding– Investigation of properties of bio-molecular systems for drug

design– Large-scale simulations of blood circulation in micro-capillaries – Astrophysical simulations

CLUSTERIX: National Cluster of Linux Systems