Next Generation Farms at Fermilab

Paper: 190
Session: F (talk)
Speaker: Wolbers, Stephen, Fermilab, Batavia
Keywords: off-the-shelf products, commodity computing, parallelization, system management, large systems


Next Generation Farms at Fermilab

Stephen Wolbers
Fermilab


Abstract

The current generation of UNIX farms at Fermilab are
rapidly approaching the end of their useful life. The workstations
were purchased during the years 1991-1992 and represented the most
cost-effective computing available at that time. At this time a
purchase of new workstations has been made to upgrade the UNIX farms
for the purpose of providing large amounts of computing for
reconstruction of data being collected at the 1996-1997 fixed-target
run, as well as to provide simulation CPU for CMS, the Auger project,
accelerator calculations and other projects that require massive
amounts of CPU.