The Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer
- Christopher Pinchak
- Paul Lu, Department of Computing Science
- Jonathan Schaeffer, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
- Mark Goldenberg
On November 4, 2002, a Canada-wide virtual supercomputer gave a chemistry research team the opportunity to do several years worth of computing in a single day. This experiment, called CISS-1 (Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer), had three research impacts: (1) in partnership with C3.ca, created a new precedent for cooperation among Canadian high-performance computing sites, (2) demonstrated the scalability and capabilities of the Trellis system for wide-area high-performance metacomputing, and (3) produced a new computational chemistry result. Using roughly 1,376 dedicated processors, at 20 facilities, and in 18 administrative domains across the country, approximately 3.5 CPU years of computing were completed. CISS-1 is a prototype for future research projects requiring large-scale computing in Canada. This is the first step towards making CISS a regular event on the Canadian research landscape.
Citation
C. Pinchak, P. Lu, J. Schaeffer, M. Goldenberg. "The Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer". High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, (ed: D. Senechal), pp 193-199, January 2003.| Keywords: | |
| Category: | In Journal |
BibTeX
@article{Pinchak+al:03,
author = {Christopher Pinchak and Paul Lu and Jonathan Schaeffer and Mark
Goldenberg},
title = {The Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer},
Editor = {D. Senechal},
Pages = {193-199},
journal = {High Performance Computing Systems and Applications},
year = 2003,
}Last Updated: June 05, 2007Submitted by Staurt H. Johnson
