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 |
CPUS/class |
kSI2K/class |
dCache/class (TB) |
| g3 |
2 x 2.4 GHz Xeon |
54 |
64.80 |
- |
| g4 |
2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon |
38 |
53.20 |
- |
| g5 |
2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon |
38 |
50.40 |
- |
| g6 |
2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon |
40 |
56.00 |
- |
| g7 |
2 x 3.0 GHz Xeon |
50 |
80.00 |
40.5 |
| g8 |
2 x 3.0 GHz Xeon |
12 |
19.20 |
6 |
| g9 |
4 x 1.8 GHz Opteron |
180 |
207.00 |
45 |
| g10 |
4 x 1.8 GHz Opteron |
96 |
110.00 |
- |
| g12 |
8 x 2.6 GHz Xeon |
256 |
691.20 |
72 |
| g13 |
8 x 2.3 GHz Xeon |
32 |
n/a |
- |
| g14 |
8 x 3.0 GHz Xeon |
256 |
1200 |
128 |
| s5 |
2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon |
18 |
- |
40.50 |
| |
Total |
~950 |
~2500 |
~350 |
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.