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The proposal is aimed
at creating a Grid by acquiring a PC cluster that would supply a high performance
and dynamically configurable computing infrastructure which would be
scalable and autonomous and would offer permanent, secured and efficient
access from anywhere.
The potential
beneficiaries of the investment will be the R&D institutions, higher
education public institutions that operate in the Northern part of the
country.
The main goal of the
investment is the Cluster, a basic component of a Grid environment which
offers a set of services that encapsulate and virtualizes shared resources
needed for solving advanced problems from pattern recognition and
distributed artificial intelligence field. Clusters represent an
alternative to high performance computers.
The objective of the
project is the building of a new grid site that will be compatible with the
projects financed from European Framework Program.
The requirements for
the new GRID are at least 72 processors and a storage capacity of 7 Tb.
It was acquired a cluster with 96 processors PowerXCell
with real computer power of 6.45 TFlops in double precision and a storage
capacity of 6.936 TB.
Other features are:
easy maintenance, backup data storage, backup power supply and backup air
conditioning.
The increased computing
power will ensure optimal conditions for developing researches on
distributed systems, parallel architectures, designing of parallel
algorithms and knowledge discovery from data warehouses.
It is estimated that
this GRID would be available 24 hours a day and it was established that it
would be interconnected with similar grids from The Automatics and
Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, and The
"Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, developed under
projects financed by FP6 and CEEX.
The beneficiaries of
the existing GRIDs that would get connected with the proposed GRID would
also become potential beneficiaries of the GRID that would be developed
under this project.
Thanks to the high
efficiency of the equipments that will be acquired and the existing
partnerships the GRID the competitivness of the University of Suceava
will increases.
The University of Suceava
will have something important to offer when establishing European and
regional partnerships and through the European project proposals it will
ensure the increase of the degree in which Romania participates in
international research, development and innovation initiatives.
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