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LONI to Welcome First TeraGrid Users Friday, Feb. 1
Beginning Friday, February 1, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, will integrate its centerpiece supercomputer, Queen Bee, into the TeraGrid, a nationwide, National Science Foundation-funded research infrastructure that incorporates high-performance computing resources across the country. The National Science Foundation, or NSF, selected LONI in September to become a TeraGrid partner as a new resource provider, and Louisiana officially joined TeraGrid Oct. 1, 2007. LONI will contribute one half of Queen Bee’s computational cycles to support the national research community. In exchange, NSF is providing $2.2 million in funding for additional support of the machine and the new set of users, and funding for additional network connections from LONI to the rest of the TeraGrid. This partnership will give LONI researchers an easier path to make use of additional national supercomputing capabilities through the TeraGrid. 
“This partnership further demonstrates the major impact that LONI is having in advancing Louisiana’s stature in the national research community,” said LONI Management Council chairman Les Guice.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, a LONI partner through the Louisiana Board of Regents, has done the work necessary to integrate Queen Bee with the TeraGrid. The initial national TeraGrid users will begin using Queen Bee February 1.
“The TeraGrid partnership helps support our local supercomputing resources while contributing to a backbone of national cyberinfrastructure, and it helps our Louisiana users make use of other national resources,” said Daniel S. Katz, Director for Cyberinfrastructure at the CCT, who oversaw the integration.
LONI is one of only 11 nationwide NSF-selected TeraGrid partners. The others are Indiana University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory.
“This partnership further demonstrates the major impact that LONI is having in advancing Louisiana’s stature in the national research community,” said LONI Management Council chairman Les Guice.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, a LONI partner through the Louisiana Board of Regents, has done the work necessary to integrate Queen Bee with the TeraGrid. The initial national TeraGrid users will begin using Queen Bee February 1.
“The TeraGrid partnership helps support our local supercomputing resources while contributing to a backbone of national cyberinfrastructure, and it helps our Louisiana users make use of other national resources,” said Daniel S. Katz, Director for Cyberinfrastructure at the CCT, who oversaw the integration.
LONI is one of only 11 nationwide NSF-selected TeraGrid partners. The others are Indiana University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory. 