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Monash Campus Grid Program recent achievements

October 9, 2006

The Monash Campus Grid (MCG) program provides physical infrastructure and Grid Middleware software to form a coherent and functioning Campus Grid facility. The program is supported by several sub-projects as defined on the MCG web page.

Recent achievements within MCG sub-projects include:

MCG integration with grid/clusters in Monash research departments

  • A separate set of network feeds has been brought into the Medicine server room, allowing cluster nodes to be separated from the general staff workstations in the area and integrated with the MCG. This integration allows traffic flows between instruments, the faculty cluster, and central ITS facilities to be separately tracked and specially catered for over time.

MCG Grid Middleware Suite

  • The Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Grid Middleware pilot environment has been made available to the DART project team. SRB is a data storage management (software) environment, which for example, allows researchers operating in a collaborative team to place and control data onto pages like this one explaining SRB. DART is a project exploring how systems like SRB can assist researchers’ activities.
  • Behind the scenes, much work continues to develop SRB into a supportable, production environment.

Monash Sun Grid (MSG) Project

  • Earlier in the year, an additional 48 CPUs have been commissioned as a part of the 2006 equipment upgrade program.
  • MSG usage and usage history statistics are available at Monash Sun Grid.

Large Research Data Store (LaRDS) Project

  • 60 terabytes of additional disk storage is now available for e Research users following the commissioning of a new disk array and SAN, which is accessible from both UNIX (MSG and other UNIX platforms via network file system) and Novell environments.
  • The following user groups and services have recently been migrated onto LaRDS:
    • All MSG users
    • Wind tunnel imaging
    • Medicine cluster users – micro-imaging data
    • Biological sciences researchers
    • Music cultural archive

For further information, contact Neil Clarke, Manager, e-Research Centre


  
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