Renaissance Computing Institute

Focus Areas Main

Biosciences & Medicine

Disaster & Environmental Research

Economic Development

Education & Outreach

Faculty Fellows

High Performance Computing

TeraGrid

Humanities, Arts & Social Science

Visualization & Collaborative Environments

Completed Projects

TeraGrid Science Gateway

Overview
TeraGrid is an open infrastructure for scientific discovery that brings together high-end resources across the U.S. to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. Deployed in 2004, TeraGrid offers the open science and engineering research communities more than 40 teraflops of computing power, nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, and specialized data analysis and visualization resources located at eight partner sites. Through high performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates high performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the country. The TeraGrid currently serves over 1,600 scientists and engineers who use computational, data management and visualization resources at resource provider sites.

The RENCI Contribution
RENCI contributes to the TeraGrid through the TeraGrid Science Gateways initiative. Science Gateways work to make TeraGrid resources accessible to new communities of users through common Web portal interfaces. RENCI is involved with three TeraGrid Science Gateway projects:

RENCI leads the Bioportal and Biomedicine Science Gateway project, which is developing a portal interface that will give biologists an easy-to-use standard interface for running computational models on the TeraGrid resources, comparing large datasets including genomic sequences, and collaborating with colleagues. RENCI is adapting its North Carolina Bioportal for the TeraGrid.
The Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Science Gateway is creating cyberenvironments for mesoscale atmospheric research. RENCI’s work with LEAD focuses on performance monitoring and adaptation and fault tolerance performability and recovery for the LEAD infrastructure.
RENCI participates in the Open Science Grid, a consortium of U.S. universities and laboratories that partners with the TeraGrid on work to create a common national grid infrastructure that is open in its architecture, implementation and use.

Funding

National Science Foundation

Project Leaders

RENCI Team

Publications

Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Mark S.C Reed, Jeffrey L. Tilson, Daniel A. Reed, Grid Portals for Bioinformatics, Second International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE), Workshop at SC|06, November 2006, Tampa, Florida

Partners
Argonne National Laboratory
Indiana University
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Purdue University
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Texas Advanced Computing Center
National Center for Atmospheric Research
RENCI

Links
TeraGrid Website
TeraGrid Science Gateways Program
NC Bioportal Project