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The goal of the Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE)
project is to build a computational grid that integrates computing systems,
storage systems and databases, visualization laboratories and displays, and
even instruments and sensors across Texas. TIGRE will enhance the
computational capabilities for Texas researchers in academia, government, and
industry by integrating massive computing power.
Areas of research in which Texas is a national and world leader and that require dramatically
increasing computational capabilities will benefit in
particular: biomedicine, energy and the environment, aerospace, materials
science, agriculture, and information technology.
TIGRE will also promote collaboration among Texas research institutions and companies, thereby
allowing them to compete nationally and internationally in
science and engineering research and for large multi-institution programs and
awards. In addition, TIGRE will enable the education of a highly competitive
workforce that will allow Texas to assume a leadership role in the national
and global economy.
In summary, TIGRE will enable:
- sharing compute resources,
- sharing instruments,
- sharing data collections,
- enabling massive simulations and analyses, and
- fostering collaborations and partnerships among universities and with
industries.
TIGRE will be a distributed-but-connected collection of heterogeneous
computing resources, data repositories and storage systems, high-speed
networks, and grid software ('middleware'). The resources will vary in power,
architecture, and even purpose, and they will be located in different rooms,
on different campuses, and even in different cities across Texas. The systems
will be integrated with high-bandwidth networks and grid middleware selected
for maximum potential to achieve HiPCAT and TIGRE goals.
The organization of the project consists of a steering committee composed of
principal investigators or their representatives from each institution, which
sets project goals and overall directions, and a developers group responsible
for selection of software components, implementation of applicable technology,
and smoothing the transition to the grid for individual applications and
researchers.
The initial project focus areas of special interest are atmospheric modeling,
biosciences, and energy exploration (e.g., seismology), but any area of
research or technology development that requires high performance computing,
large-scale storage or data transfer, or high speed networked computation is
of interest to the project. In addition, an area of "grid-ready"
applications was identified by the steering committee, which includes those
of our HiPCAT partner projects in collaborative tools (CDLT) and high energy
particle physics and related fields (THEGrid). We expect to be pursuing all
of these areas of work in the near-term future.
Featured Applications
TIGRE uses high-end applications from diverse disciplines to drive the State Grid construction.
Institutions
The founding members of TIGRE are
All of them welcome collaboration on high-end applications and grid computing. To get involved, see our contact list.
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HiPCAT meeting Jan. 11, 2008
