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Psc Provides Direct Link From Galaxy to the Xsede Backbone
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Blacklight supercomputer.
Credit: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center/CNET News
Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX) has established a high-bandwidth link from a Penn State bioinformatics program to the network backbone of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program.
The direct, high-speed link to XSEDE will enable biologists affiliated with Penn State's Galaxy program to perform complex, genomics data analysis using Web-based protocols. The network connection is a 10 Gbps fiber-optic-based link.
"It provides us with the ability to run up to 150,000 jobs per month, and we expect to quadruple that as this link gets fully up and running," says Galaxy co-developer and Penn State professor Anton Nekrutenko. "It allows biologists to take advantage of [high-performance computing] resources in ways they otherwise could not, not only the computing, but the storage resources at XSEDE sites."
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center operates and manages 3ROX, a high-performance Internet hub. XSEDE staff are working with Galaxy researchers to develop capabilities that enable biologists to transparently use XSEDE data analysis and storage resources as needed.
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