Adarsh's Grid Home

In home at CUC, we have a 50 Node dual processor cluster. Its a rack optimized Dell 1655MC cluster (PIII@1.26GHz processors). we call it a 100 node cluster, because it has 100 processors.Its loaded with Red Hat 7.3 OS,many flavors of MPI, Sun Java, PVM and GCC compilers. This cluster will be soon part of Grid-Ireland. Its been used by our group and members of Boole Centre for Research in Informatics. WebCom-G OS core middleware of the Grid is running on the Boole Cluster.

We also have a Beowulf Cluster built out of 40 Dell Poweredge servers. There specifications are P4 2.80Ghz , 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, onboard Graphics. To maintain heterogeneity these machines are installed with Debian, Free BSD, Fedora Core 2 and variety of Grid middleware suite like WebCom-G, Globus(2.4,3.0), Sun N1. The notion being to test WebCom-G on a heterogeneous platforms .Around 10 machines are dedicated for web servers, application servers, CVS repository, firewall, Backup, Testing. We have a dedicated Network Attached Storage (NAS) from Dell Power Vault 745N approximating providing 1 Terabyte of space to cluster. All these resources are housed in a dedicated cluster room, fueled with dedicated air conditioners, equipments to dismantle the cluster/pc's ,wiring equipments.

Popularity of Grid in Ireland gave rise to coupling of many universities across the island with their in house resource shared for the Grid community. Dell has agreed to donate(not free but nominal price) its Gateway machines to UCC, TCD, NUIG, DIAS and the internet backbone is supported by HEAnet. Currently research is being immersed with GRID-IRELAND, EGEE and CERN.