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This document is intended to be a quick start guide for using the grid-resources provided by SweGrid. This documentation should not be considered as a replacement for documentation found at the NorduGrid Web-site, but as a complement. This document will also provide documentation on SweGrid specific usage.
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Organisation
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Swegrid is a computational grid consisting of 600 computers
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* [[SweGrid old/User's_Guide|Introduction]]
distributed over six sites throughout Sweden:
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* [[SweGrid old/Client_installation|Client installation]]
 
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* [[SweGrid old/Grid_certificates|Grid certificates]]
- Lunarc, Lund
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* [[SweGrid old/Using_SweGrid_resources|Using SweGrid resources]]
- C3SE, Göteborg
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* [[SweGrid old/Application examples|Application examples]]
- NSC, Linköping
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* [[SweGrid old/Using_national_storage_resources|Using national storage resources]]
- PDC, Stockholm
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* [[SweGrid old/ARC_Developer_Guide|ARC Developer Guide]]
- Uppmax, Uppsala
 
- HPC2N, Umeå
 
 
 
Access to SweGrid is granted through the Swedish National Allocations Committee (SNAC). There are two types of allocations:
 
 
 
- Medium size allocation - Granted directly by the SweGrid technical coordinator.
 
- Large size allocation - Granted on a peer-review procedure through the SNAC committee.
 
 
 
Resources
 
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At the moment the SweGrid resources consists of 6 clusters with approximately 3000 cores connected through the 10 GigE SUNET network.
 
 
 
Each node has a 2 quad core 2.67 GHz Xeon processor with 16 GB RAM and an 250 GB 7200 rpm SATA local disk.
 
 
 
The nodes within each cluster are connected by gigabit Ethernet.
 
 
 
Each cluster has approximately 100 TB of short-term storage available as session and grid-cache.
 
 
 
Swegrid is designed mainly for `high-throughput computing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-throughput_computing>`_, to quickly process large numbers of loosely coupled non-parallel computations. This is in contrast to most of the current national computation resources, like Neolith, Akka and Lindgren, which are designed to run a smaller number of large, parallel jobs.
 
 
 
Applying for time
 
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Researchers linked to any Swedish academic institution may apply for time on SweGrid resources. Applications for resources should be directed to SNAC.
 
 
 
For user support, please contact support@swegrid.se. You will receive an automatic confirmation containing a trouble ticket number, and a Swegrid techician will shortly reply to your questions.
 
 
 
Other sources of information
 
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SweGrid is hosting a Web home page at: www.snic.vr.se/swegrid. This is the best place to receive current information about the center and the compute resources as well as planned courses, seminars, online documentation, system user guides etc. Bookmark this page!
 

Latest revision as of 14:29, 8 July 2011

This document is intended to be a quick start guide for using the grid-resources provided by SweGrid. This documentation should not be considered as a replacement for documentation found at the NorduGrid Web-site, but as a complement. This document will also provide documentation on SweGrid specific usage.

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