1. Preparation for the TeraGrid: Account Synchronization and High Performance Storage Bobby House

2. About the TeraGrid

3. TeraGrid Integration qIntegration Challenges  Accounting  Network  Security  TeraGrid Software qLocal Accounting System Interface  Account Creation  Tracking User Allocations

4. NCSA/TG Allocations Service Node FEN 4 FEN 1 FEN 2 FEN 3 Frost (IBM BG/L) TGCDB AMIE ACC8 tgactsync ReSET usersync Usage packets Users and projects info User and project packets Job data Users, Projects, DNs /etc/passwd /etc/project grid-mapfile DBST ReSET

5. High Performance Storage qRedeploying Bluesky storage  Special projects and extra storage for the TeraGrid  Redistributed 5 racks of storage for use with Frost  Re-Architected for performance and high availability qThe FAStT storage system - Capacity: 32.85 TB Raw (~20TB Usable) - Performance: up to 1 GB/s - Design and Implementation - Full Hardware Redundancy - Full Software Redundancy with Linux multi-path and GPFS

6. FC Switch A FC Switch B FENsFrost A B AB AB AB AB AB AB AB AB AB

7. Continuing Work qMPI-IO testing and performance analysis:  GPFS on Frost storage subsystems (FAStT 500 and FAStT 900)  GPFS, Lustre, PVFS2 on dedicated storage system (Maelstrom) qSemi-Automated Performance Analysis  Benchmark Configuration  Data Collection  Plotting and Analysis qIncorporating these efforts into an upcoming paper on High Performance Storage

8. Questions?