In addition to CCR's large production clusters and visualization hardware, CCR maintains a wide variety of storage systems and compute clusters.

EMC SAN

The EMC Storage System consists of:

• 4 CX700 disk arrays in a SAN (storage area network) with two NS704g Data Mover bundles to present the storage as NAS (network attached storage).
• The SAN includes 240 146GB fibre channel drives yielding a total of 35TB raw disk space, with 25TB useable RAID5 storage.
• The NAS layer includes 8 Data Movers, 6 active and 2 standby.
• The system will support in excess of 2500 NFS clients, including support for MPFSi to 1200 RedHat Linux clients with I/O performance in the 3 GB/sec range.
• The storage solution is backed up with a 595 slot tape library using Legato Networker backup software. The library includes 4 110/220GB SDLT tape drives and 4 160/320GB tape drives with a maximum capacity of 190TB.

Bioinformatics System

Bioinformatics computing resources, which host a broad spectrum of software include:

• 2 Sun Fire V880 Servers containing:
  • Eight 750MHz processors,
  • 16 GB of RAM,
  • 216 GB disk space
• 1 Sun Fire 6800 Server containing:
  • 12 900MHz processors,
  • 24 GB of RAM,
  • 144 GB disk space
• 1 Sun Fire V880 server that is comprised of:
  • Eight 800 MHz processors,
  • 32 GB of RAM,
  • 384 GB disk space
• 3 Dell servers consisting of:
  • Xeon Dual 3.2 GHz proessors,
  • 2 GB of RAM,
  • 80GB disk space
• 3 Compaq Pentium III servers each consisting of:
  • Dual 1.2 GHz processors,
  • 4 GB of RAM,
  • 146 GB of disk space

Dell Pentium Cluster for Groundwater Modeling

This commodity cluster (nicknamed: clearwater) is utilized solely for a large EPA-funded project in ground water modeling.

The Dell Pentium III Cluster consists of:

• 16 Dell 1550 servers each of which contains:
  • Two 1 GHz PentiumIII processors
  • One 36 GB disk
  • Servers are fully interconnected with Myrinet 2000 and are also connected with Ethernet

Chemistry Cluster I

This 86 node heterogenous commodity cluster (nicknamed: thewho) connected by Gigabit ethernet consists of:

• 10 HP/Compaq 32-bit servers each of which contains:
  • Two 2.8GHz Intel Xeon processors
  • 2GB of memory
  • One 72 GB disk
• 64 Dell EM64T servers each of which contains:
  • Two 3.2GHz Intel Xeon processors
  • Mixture of 6GB and 2GB of memory
  • Two 40GB SATA disks
• 12 FineTec AMD Opteron servers each of which contains:
  • Mixture of 8 and 4 core AMD Opteron processors
  • Memory configurations ranging from 4GB to 32GB per node

This cluster is run by Dr. Jochen Autschbach's research lab of the Department of Chemistry. For more information, please visit his website

Chemistry Cluster II

This 18 node heterogeneous commodity cluster (nicknamed: gobot) connected by Gigabit ethernet consists of:

• One head node
  • 2GB of RAM
  • Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor
  • 6 disks totaling 850GB

• 18 compute nodes in the following configurations:
  • 12 with 2GB of memory of which
    • 9 have dual AMD Athlon processors (ranging from MP 2400+ to MP 2800+)
    • 1 has dual core AMD Opteron 170 processors
    • 2 have dual core AMD Opteron 240 processors
  • 6 with 8GB of RAM and 4 dual core AMD Opteron 270 Processors

This cluster is run by Dr. Philip Coppen's research lab of the Department of Chemistry. For more information, please visit his website.

Physics Cluster

This commodity cluster (nicknamed: quantum) consists of 16 nodes each containing:

• Two dual-core 2.0GHz 270 Opteron processors,
  • 4GB of RAM
  • One 72GB disk
  • Fully interconnected with Myrinet, Gigabit ethernet, and ethernet

High Speed Communications (Internet2)

Through New York State's advanced research network (NYSERNet 2000), CCR has access to all major high speed communication networks commonly referred to as the Next Generation Internet. NYSERNet is a 622 megabits per second network that connects UB and CCR with national and international high speed networks such as vBNS (very High-performance Backbone Network Service), Gemini 2000, and Abilene.