Grid Computing Research Laboratory

State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton
Department of Computer Science

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Computing Resources

The Grid Computing Group owns and/or uses the following computing resources:

High Performance Myrinet Cluster (The "Generals")




16 dual processor 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 Xeons (for a total of 32 processors), with 1 GB DDR Ram and a 15K RPM 18GB Ultra-160 SCSI drive. The nodes are connected by both MyriNet 1280 (1.28 Gbit/s) and Gigibit ethernet

The machines are served by a RAID File Server, which consists of 2 AMD Athlon MP 2400 Processors, Tyan Thunder K7X Pro (S2469GN) Extended ATX Motherboard, 12 Western Digital 200GB Caviar Special Edition Hard Drives.

This cluster is shared among several research faculty in the department, and was purchased with funds from NSF Award 9911099.

IBM eServer ("Pop")

Our own Pu "Pop" Liu, won the "2005 IBM North America Grid Scholars Challenge," earning us an IBM eServer cluster, which we've named "PoP", in his honor!

This is a headless true cluster of 4 identical nodes and 1 server. The server contains a Dual 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon with 2 GB DDR RAM, a 15K RPM 36GB Ultra-320 SCSI Hard Drive, Gigabit Ethernet (external), and Dual Gigabit Ethernet (internal) The 4 nodes are 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 Xeons, with 4 GB DDR RAM, 15K RPM 150GB Ultra-320 SCSI Hard drive, and Dual Gigabit Ethernet (internal). The machine runs SuSE SLE.

Student Office and Lab (The "Cars")

The Grid Group uses a small lab consisting of eight Desktop PC's, primarily for development projects. These machines are Dell Dimension 4500 Series Intel Pentium 4 Processors at 2.26GHz, with 1GB DDR SDRAM at 266MHz, and 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drives (7200 RPM).

Shared Research Infrastructure

  • We also have access to other shared research infrastructure, much of which is described on the CS Department Hardware Details page.
  • We're also a site on the Open Science Grid.
  • And.... we have a new NSF grant (NSF Award 0454298) from July 2005. We'll be using the half a million dollars in funds to upgrade our research infrastructure significantly!

  • Page maintained by Mike Lewis: mlewis@binghamton.edu