Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development

The map above shows current traffic flows and traffic patterns across GLORIAD - as measured in Chicago.  In the map, triangles show source of traffic; inverted trianges, destination. Sites connected by arcs are the heavist current consumers. Colors indicate network protocols and can be discovered by the listing of top users at the right. The small charts show traffic volume by application during the last two hours. Clicking on any of them takes you to a larger display.

Project: Illinois BioGrid

Description: The Illinois Bio-Grid is a consortium of academic institutions, national labs, and private and public sector organizations. These various organizations have joined together to share hardware and software tools that each can use in their research centering mainly on Bio-Medical Informatics. This will give each participant access to computational resources that is greater than the sum of the parts. The main purpose is to share compute and software resources amongst the members. It is a computational grid for Grid and BioMedicalInformatics software research and for production BioMedical Informatics research. The Illinois Bio-Grid is composed of over 500 processors shared by the institutions listed below. The institutions share their resources, giving each institution a larger pool of resources to use when required. The heterogenous machines are connected via the internet to create one large virtual supercomputer in a virtual organization.

Participants: DePaul, UofC, IIT, Argonne, Chicago Technology Park, Isegen, Eprogen, Supercomputing Center of Chicago

Sponsors:

Countries Involved: US

Tools: GT2, GT3 (planned, Cactus

Contact: dangulo@cs.uchicago.edu