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NCAR TeraGrid RP Status Update Rich Loft, RPPI January 29, 2009
Future NCAR TG Resource Plans • Possible Blue Gene/L Expansion • Exploring idea with adding 3 surplus BG/L racks with SDSC/IBM • BG/L End of life is mid CY 2010 • 100 TFLOPS MRI System @ CU • CU pursuing trailer facility solution • NCAR 10 % stakeholder • 1.5 PB SL8500 Archive with 1 PB media • HPSS • TG availability to be announced March 1, 2009. • 10 Gb/s TG connectivity • DEN-CHI “lifetime” link (NLR quote) $52k • DEN-NCAR link available for next 7 years