IBM Donates Small Cluster to KTH in Stockholm
February 10, 2001
IBM has donated a small cluster to KTH (the Royal Institute of Technology)
in Stockholm, as part of a program to establish a network of Open Software
development University sites in Europe. The lab, which officially opens
February 13, will initially focus on education and development for open
source for security, file systems, systems administration, visualization,
network administration, network simulation, internet infrastructure
including mobile communication, and applications in science and engineering.
The four initially participating centers, Paralleldatorcentrum (PDC), KTH
Network Operations Center (KTHNOC), the KALLSUP educational consortium, and
the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center (SBC), have excellent track records in
research and development, which should provide many opportunities for
collaboration.
PDC is the lead national academic computing center known for its efforts to
make parallel computing accessible and usable. In the systems area, one of
the more significant developments is a version of Kerberos V that was
developed and written from scratch. PDC has also developed scheduling
software for parallel systems (prior to the Maui scheduler), visualization
and steering software for Virtual Reality environments, and scientific
computing and numerical software (with MatLab/Mathworks spin-offs).
KTHNOC, the Network Operations Center at KTH, is responsible for the KTH
campus network, the Swedish University Network (SUNET) and the Nordic
University Network (NORDUnet). It plans to use the cluster technology for
education and network simulation, and a variety of network administration,
routing and protocol studies.
The Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, which is focused on functional
genomics, is joint insitution of KTH, Stockholm University and the
Karolinska Institute. KALLSUP, (KTHs Arbetsgrupp för Lokala och Lättanvända
Superdatorer), is a consortium of several departments at KTH formed to
further computational science and engineering, and is focused on tools and
computational techniques in undergraduate and graduate education.