LeMieux, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's terascale system and the nation's most powerful academic computing resource, is now linked with supercomputers in Illinois and California as part of the National Science Foundation-funded TeraGrid.
PSC network engineers successfully implemented and tested a light pipeline that connects PSC to the Chicago hub of the TeraGrid's high-speed "backplane," which links the five TeraGrid sites.
"Along with providing an eastern U.S. node for the TeraGrid, this is an important first step toward a wide-area computational Grid that encompasses terascale systems of different architecture," said PSC scientific directors Mike Levine and Ralph Roskies in a joint statement.
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