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management
staff
resources
Mission
Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing is an organizational unit
of Wroclaw University of
Technology. WCSS was founded in 1995.
Its main tasks are
- operation and development of the Wroclaw Academic Computer Network (WASK)
- operation and development of high performance computing services
- operation and development of network information services for
all academic institutions in city of Wroclaw
Activities
The
WASK network
At first WASK network based on the FDDI loop connecting local networks
of individual universities and research institutions, later the ATM backbone
was created, which gave the possibility of creating virtual networks and
transferring multimedia. In the 2003 year it was replaced by Gigabit Ethernet.
WASK network includes 120 km of fiberoptic routes and 23 nodes, connecting
over 15,000 computer stations. WASK is connected through the
PIONIER
to GÉANT2 European Network and
to other national and global networks,
and to the Research and Academic Computer Network
NASK. WASK is supervised and monitored by WCSS using: HP OpenView and
CiscoWorks software, MRTG (MultiRouter Traffic Grapher), RRDTool, NetFlow
and WS-WATCH.
High
performance computing services
High Performance Computing environment in the Wroclaw Centre for
Networking and Supercomputing combines multiple independent systems
connected via a high-speed network to solve complex scientific problems
in numerous disciplines. This includes computational chemistry, physics,
fluid dynamics, finite element modeling, mathematics, acoustics and many
others. WCSS provides access to several rare or expensive software
packages, tools and libraries.
http://www.wcss.wroc.pl/english/sc.php
WCSS is equipped with the following high performance computing hardware:
2016 cores Intel cluster, 19TFLOPS
with LUSTRE shared storage - total peak random speed is 6GB/s, linear speed is 10 GB/s,
SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, 128 processors,
SGI Tezro visual workstation,
SGI Octane workstation,
Storage Area Network (SAN) with a total of 37 TB and tape library Adic Scalar 10 K with a total 320 TB.
Internet
services
WCSS is serving most important Internet services for whole academic
society. This includes web pages of universities (like
http://www.pwr.wroc.pl/en_main.xml
), W3Cache proxy for redundant HTTP
transfers (w3cache.pwr.wroc.pl), tens of thousands of e-Mail accounts,
public FTP (ftp://ftp.pwr.wroc.pl),
LDAP directories (http://ldap.pwr.wroc.pl) and
unlimited access to 15,000+ UseNET groups (
news://news.pwr.wroc.pl
).
Network services department operates on a cluster of Sun servers
consisting of several V880, V280 and E4500 machines.
International and national projects
WCSS took part in the projects:
WCSS takes part in the: