Imperial College becomes first GridPP site to join the NGS
Mon 1 Oct 2007
Imperial College's GridPP site blazed a trail in August, when it became the first GridPP site to join the UK National Grid Service as an affiliate member.
Dr David Colling, e-Science Team Leader of the High Energy Physics Group at Imperial College London said, "Imperial has been active in the UK Grid community since the year 2000 and it seems clear to us that the future is through greater co-operation between the different UK and European Grid projects. This is how we will offer our resources, efficiently, to the largest group of users. For this reason Imperial felt that it was important that we became part of the NGS".
The first resource to be accessed through the NGS is a 408 processor Opteron based Beowulf cluster which runs RedHat Enterprise Edition Linux. Future resources to be made available through the NGS include a 260 dual processor Intel/Linux cluster which will support high performance and high throughput computing and a 200 core Woodcrest cluster. Dr David Colling emphasised that "Imperial was committed to bringing a growing collection of resources to the NGS".
As the first GridPP site to join the NGS, Imperial College will allow NGS users to share GridPP resources. This means that all UK researchers will be able to access GridPP resources at Imperial regardless of their research area.
The computing resources at Imperial College London are managed by the London e-Science Centre (LeSC; http://www.lesc.ic.ac.uk/).
Source: Gillian Sinclair, NGS
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