The CHTC is
now hiring for the following positions: Infrastructure Team Lead, System Administrator,
Jr. and Sr. Software Engineers. If you are a curious, talented system admin or developer and want to join one of the
world's leading distributed computing research teams, please send a resume to
condor-jobs@cs.wisc.edu.
The Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) offers computing resources for use by researchers.
Approved in August 2006, the CHTC provides the numerous resources at its disposal to keep up with the
computational needs of UW-Madison. These resources are funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH),
the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and various grants from the University itself.
These resources are provided to all UW-Madison researchers, free of charge.
Even external collaborators with an on-campus sponsor may be given access to resources.
High throughput computing (HTC)
is the shared utilization of autonomous resources toward a common goal,
where all the elements are optimized for maximizing computational
throughput.
(Wikipedia entry)
View a Windows Media movie interview with Miron Livny and other
collaborators on the benefits of high throughput computing. You can also view a
Quicktime movie that highlights several applications of HTC on the UW-Madison campus.
The CHTC facilitates access to an ever-growing set of resources. The UW campus computing grid is comprised of pools of
machines approaching a total of 10,000 cores. From July 2010 to June 2011, the CHTC provided 45 Million CPU hours
to campus researchers and off-campus collaborators. Learn more in our
2010-2011 Engagement Report.
The Center is home to the following activities:
- The Condor project
provides the globally-used Condor software that powers the CHTC.
Condor enables the CHTC to maximize job throughput for many simultaneous users,
each user with different needs. It supports complex workflows,
the ability to take checkpoints and then resume jobs,
and it enables access to additional computing resources across the globe.
- The
NMI Build and Test Lab
(BaTLab) is a multi-platform facility that promotes continuous building
and testing of software. Condor is built in the BaTLab, and the BaTLab helps us work toward our goal
of deploying error-free, high quality software for the CHTC.
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The CHTC is supported by a dedicated engagement team, comprised of HTC software experts,
infrastructure managers, and and domain experts. E-mail chtc@cs.wisc.edu
to get started with your project today.
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The Open Science Grid
(OSG) is a high-throughput computing infrastructure that supports science.
It is an expanding alliance of more than 80 universities, national laboratories,
scientific collaborations, and software developers.
CHTC users can access OSG's considerable computing and storage resources.
Learn more
about how the CHTC has helped advance a diverse body of research on campus.
