CSL Resources

The primary CSL resource is the critical computing systems testbed. This testbed wa established with funding from the Army Research Office and Intel Corporation. The testbed is operational and is housed in Rm 312 of the College of Computing Building. The testbed hardware is comprised of 17, quad Pentium Pro Systems interconnected by myrinet and fast ethernet.

In support of high performance and reliable communication activities we have installed a 16 Myrinet Network cards. These cards connect to a 32 port Myrinet switch which in turn is connected to another 32 port Myrinet Switch that interconnects a Sun UltrSparc Cluster. The network purchase was supported by the Army Research Office.
We have on order interface cards with reconfigurable hardware (FPGA) for research in configurable networks to support real-time and reliable communication.
Gigabit ethernet has just been acquired.
Software performance monitoring and instrumentation tools have been ported to the cluster and have been tested with synthetic benchmark applications.
We have 16, Intel I2O interface cards. These cards host the VxWorks real time operating systems donated by Wind River Systems. These cards support research efforts in intelligent I/O, integrated inter-processor + I/O systems and "active network" style implementations of cluster networks.

Related cluster resources as well access policies for the Critical Systems Laboratory cluster (otherwise known as the Danish Cluster) can be found can be found as part of the campus wide Intel High Peformance Computing Facilities

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