12 Facts About TeraGrid

TeraGrid was an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites.

TeraGrid integrated high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and experimental facilities.

TeraGrid was coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with the resource provider sites in the United States.

The TeraGrid project was launched in August 2001 with $53 million in funding to four sites: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

The TeraGrid network was transformed through the ETF project from a 4-site mesh to a dual-hub backbone network with connection points in Los Angeles and at the Starlight facilities in Chicago.

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TeraGrid construction was made possible through corporate partnerships with Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel Corporation, Qwest Communications, Juniper Networks, Myricom, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Oracle Corporation.

TeraGrid construction was completed in October 2004, at which time the TeraGrid facility began full production.

In May 2007, TeraGrid integrated resources included more than 250 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks.

In late 2009, The TeraGrid resources had grown to 2 petaflops of computing capability and more than 60 petabytes storage.

TeraGrid resources are integrated through a service-oriented architecture in that each resource provides a "service" that is defined in terms of interface and operation.

CTSS provides a familiar user environment on all TeraGrid systems, allowing scientists to more easily port code from one system to another.

TeraGrid uses a 10 Gigabits per second dedicated fiber-optical backbone network, with hubs in Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles.