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The Computer Architecture Group at Trinity College Dublin focuses on advancing parallel and distributed computing frameworks. With a strong emphasis on grid and cluster technologies, the team conducts performance analysis, fault tolerance, and real-time computing research. Collaborations include various institutions and industries, leveraging innovative structures like Beowulf clusters and scalable coherent interconnects. The group actively supports projects such as Grid-Ireland and CosmoGrid, promoting grid-enabled computational physics studies to tackle natural phenomena through interdisciplinary teamwork.
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ComputerArchitectureGroup Mobile Convergent Brian Coghlan Jeremy Jones Michael Manzke Andy Nisbet David Gregg John Waldron Jonathan Dukes Parallel Distributed Trinity College Dublin http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/cag/ Computer Architecture Group Trinity College Dublin
Grids ClusterTechnologies Computational Grid Technologies Grid-Ireland PerformanceAnalysis PerformanceMonitoring CAG Clusters dB Fault-Tolerance Real-Time Parallel Computing Core Research
PerformanceAnalysis dB Performance Monitoring & Analysis
Cluster Technologies • Scalable Coherent Interconnect [ IEEE-1596 SCI ] [Norway] [Norway] [Germany/France][Germany] [France] [Ireland] [Norway] [Italy] [Germany] SINTEF Dolphin ICS Fujitsu-Siemens Infineon (Siemens) Thompson CSF Trinity College Dublin University of Oslo Bull Motorola • The Department has 4 x small SCI clusters, with different topologies: • Clos-switched • 2-d Torus • 1-d Ringlet • Industrial Real-Time
Grid-Ireland Grid Technologies • Grid-Ireland • Grid-Ireland Management • Execution Models • Grid Timestamps • Network Tracing • CosmoGrid • DataGrid • WP3 R-GMA • WP6 CA group • WP6 Testbeds • CrossGrid • WP3 Grid Monitoring • WP4 Testbeds
Galway Dublin Cork Associated with: Grid-Ireland [www.grid-ireland.org] • Pilot OCT-1999 : Dublin-----Cork • V1.0 established JUN-2001 • V2.0 scheduled JUN-2002 • Managed layer above HEAnet • First VO == CosmoGrid • Grid-enabled Computational Physics • of Natural Phenomena • Led by DIAS
CosmoGrid [www.grid-ireland.org] Grid-enabled Computational Physics of Natural Phenomena VO: Astrophysicists Geophysicists Atmospheric Physicists Computer Scientists 9 Institutions 60 Individuals 3 Beowulf clusters linked via Grid-Ireland over HEAnet 6 Grid gateways
NIS master & slave Irish GIIS / R-GMA Local GIIS / R-GMA RMS / LB server proxy-arp Firewall CExy SE HTTP server CE00 RA server LCFG server Net Tracer 1Gbps switch CA server RAID servers Grid-Ireland Site Structure VLAN