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About UW-HEP Computing

The High Energy Physics group at the University of Wisconsin maintains an information technology infrastructure that is trouble-free, secure, highly available and well understood.

We use AFS file sharing and Condor batch computing software to implement a high throughput Linux computing environment on diverse hardware, including:
  CPU Quantity kSI2K/class dCache/class (TB)
g3 2 x 2.4 GHz Xeon 27 64.80 -
g4 2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon 19 53.20 -
g5 2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon 18 50.40 -
g6 2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon 20 56.00 -
g7 2 x 3.0 GHz Xeon 25 80.00 40.5
g8 2 x 3.0 GHz Xeon 6 19.20 6
g9 4 x 1.8 GHz Opteron 45 207.00 45
g10 4 x 1.8 GHz Opteron 24 110.00 -
g12 8 x 2.6 GHz Xeon 32 691.20 72
g13 8 x 2.3 GHz Xeon 4 n/a -
s5 2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon 9 - 40.50
  Total 216 1332.20 190.50
Opportunistic computing resources from the Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin and Computer Science Department provide the potential for utilizating a total of over 2300 Linux CPUs.

Sun Solaris and Linux computers are used to provide domain name service, backups, email, spam filtering, centralized printing and web hosting. We also have a small cluster of HP workstations running HP-UX for CAD work.

Our Grid Network is implemented using a Cisco Catalyst 3750G-16TD switch stack (10 Gbps uplink to the Internet) and our Staff Network is implemented using a Cisco Catalyst 4503 switch (2 Gbps uplink) at the core, with gigabit ethernet over fiber trunks fanning out to Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches.

Our older compute servers are 1U rack-mount systems with Supermicro or Intel motherboards, dual Xeon CPUs and gigabit ethernet. Our newer generations of compute servers are 1U rack-mount 1.8 GHz dual/dual (four CPU) Opteron based Supermicro systems with gigabit ethernet.

Our storage servers are dual Xeon CPU based systems with 5 TB Apple Xserve RAIDs attached via Apple's PCI-X fibre channel card and 80 systems with 1 TB of ordinary ATA100 disk.

steve rader
systems & network manager
Last update: February 11th 2007

 

 
 
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