Objective: Furnish Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (CSCC) members with a large, stable state-of-the-art computing environment to develop, compile and produce scientific and engineering applications and algorithms. Upgrade the high performance computer facilities in order to provide developers with the latest technology possible.
Approach: The Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium works together by gathering vital resources from their members to ensure access to advanced technology in high-performance computing issues. Through the transfer of technical information and the sharing of advanced expertise, these universities, research laboratories, government agencies and industry affiliates create a facility that yields innovative results in supercomputing.
Accomplishments: During the last year the CSCC announced that the 56-node paragon "raptor" was available for general use by Consortium members. This machine is on loan from Intel until the large CSCC Paragon has completed it's Friendly User period.
In December of 1993, TREX, the Intel Paragon Model XPS/L38 arrived to enhance Caltech's advanced supercomputing facility. In March 0f 1994, TREX was released to Friendly Users to continue development acceptance testing. The hardware configuration of TREX is as follows:
Status/Plans: The Consortium has many plans for the computing facility in the coming year. Several upgrades are scheduled for TREX, including; adding memory of 64 or 128 MB to 128 nodes, install 1 GB local hard disk on 256 nodes and increasing the number of HIPPI nodes. The plan for TREX is to match the Delta in terms of stability and user load. Raptor will be returned to Intel as soon as TREX has completed these acceptance testing requirements. Users will be given ample time to transfer data over to the larger 512-node paragon machine.
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