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NPACI Grid: Testbed Info


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NPACI Archive Page

The NPACI program ended on September 30, 2004. This site is presented for archival purposes only. For current resources at each of the partner sites, please refer to the appropriate institution site.

Testbed Info

The NPACI Grid testbed consists of a set of machines reserved by the resource sites for building and testing:

Platform
Nodes
CPUs/node
Description
ia64-suse-8.1
1
1
An Intanium2 node set aside for NPACI.  This node will be available to regular NPACI users for Itanium2 development and testing.
power3-aix-5.1
2
4
Two of Blue Horizon's interactive nodes taken offline from the production network and dedicated to NPACI Grid testing / NPACKage development.
x86-redhat-7.2
1
2
Shared host at ISI.
x86-redhat-7.3
4
2
A 4 node Rocks cluster at SDSC.
x86-redhat-8.0
1
2
Workstation at ISI.
x86-suse-8.1
1
1
Multi-purpose host at SDSC.

Some of the hosts above were used for both builds and testing, while others were set aside as either dedicated build hosts or dedicated test hosts.

The test hosts gets nightly deployments of the software, allowing the test team to run their tests during the day.