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Manchester Computing has been involved in High-Performance Computing
(HPC) for many years. Partly through the centre's interest in
Meta-Computing, and the need to bring this activity beyond the
demonstration stage, Manchester Computing became interested in
emerging GRID technologies.
Manchester Computing currently operates a world-class HPC service,
providing access to a 512-processor SGI Origin 3000 and a
128-processor SGI Origin 2000, an 816-processor Cray T3E, and an 8
processor Fujitsu VPP300; these machines are already linked by a
token-based economy, where resources can be traded from machine to
machine, resource to resource (e.g. CPU-time on the T3E traded for
disk space on the O3000).
Currently, the centre is involved in several GRID-related projects,
including EUROGRID, based on the UNICORE software system from Pallas,
and has linked some of the above machines into a European-wide
HPC-GRID. Manchester has also been named as one of the e-Science
regional centres, and so the centre is heavily involved with the
establishment of a UK GRID, based on the Globus software. Compute
resources have been donated to both these efforts. These two core
activities will provide the focus of this talk, but an overview of
Manchester Computing's other GRID-based projects will also be
provided.
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