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Further details can be found §6.2.1.
To support the great diversity of research activities and their wide range in resources needs, our
user support and operations teams leverage the expertise across the eleven TeraGrid Resource
Providers (§5, §8). In addition, users benefit from our coordinated education, outreach, and
training activities (§9).
1.3 TeraGrid’s Integrated, Distributed Environment
TeraGrid’s diverse set of HPC resources provides a rich computational science environment.
TeraGrid RPs operate more than 25 highly reliable HPC resources and 10 storage resources that
are available via a central allocations and accounting process for the national academic
community. More detailed information is available on compute resources at
www.teragrid.org/userinfo/hardware/resources.php and on storage resources at
www.teragrid.org/userinfo/hardware/dataresources.php.
In Q2 2010, TeraGrid again saw further increases in delivered NUs. TeraGrid compute resources
delivered 12.1 billion NUs to users, 0.3% as TeraGrid Roaming NUs (Figure 8-11). Roaming
NUs continued to decline as that allocation feature is phased out. The 12.1 billion NUs represent
a 20% increase over the NUs delivered in Q1 2010. Nearly 100% of those NUs were delivered to
allocated users. The Q2 2010 NUs delivered are 1.7x the NUs delivered in Q2 2009. Further
details can be found §8.11.
1.4 Organizational Architecture
The coordination and management of the TeraGrid partners and resources requires organizational
and collaboration mechanisms that
are different from a classic
organizational structure for single
organizations. The existing
structure and practice has evolved
from many years of collaborative
arrangements between the centers,
some predating the TeraGrid. As
the TeraGrid moves forward, the
inter-relationships continue to
evolve in the context of a
persistent collaborative
environment.
Figure 1-1: TeraGrid Facility Partner Institutions
The TeraGrid team (Figure 1-1) is
composed of eleven RPs and the
GIG, which in turn has subawards to the RPs plus six additional Software Integration partners.
The GIG provides coordination, operations, software integration, management and planning. GIG
area directors (ADs) direct project activities involving staff from multiple partner sites,
coordinating and maintaining TeraGrid central services.
TeraGrid policy and governance rests with the TeraGrid Forum (TG Forum), comprising the
eleven RP principal investigators and the GIG principal investigator. The TG Forum is led by an
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