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[ Background ]
[ People ]
[ Hardware Resources ]
[ Papers ]
 Background
The objective of the ACT project is to address and solve issues of
software design and cluster architecture for large-scale data
processing applications. Our focus is on file systems for processing
massive amounts of data in a cluster.
We are also working on the development of new file systems and file
system architectures for clusters. The ACT cluster project is funded
jointed through grants from
Acxiom Corporation and
the
Arkansas Science and Technology Authority.
People
- Dr. Amy Apon
, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
- Greg Amerson
, a master's student in Computer Engineering.
- Prathima Gorjala
, a master's student in Computer Engineering.
- Dennis Reed
, a master's student in Computer Engineering.
- Pawel Wolinski
, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science.
Hardware Resources
- The ACT Cluster
- Seven dual-processor Pentium III 1GHz computers, each with
512MB memory, dual
EIDE disk RAID subsystems, and connected via Fast Ethernet and
second-generation Myrinet. This cluster was purchased through
funding from Acxiom Corporation and the Arkansas Science and
Technology Authority.
- The Eagle Cluster
- Four Compaq Pentium III 500MHz computers and four Gateway
Pentium II 450MHz computers. The eight computers are connected
via an HP ProCurve 100Mbps switch. Each Compaq computer is
equipped with 256MB memory and and EtherExpress Pro 10/100
Ethernet card. Each Gateway computer has 128MB memory and a 3Com
10/100 Ethernet card.
- The Prospero Cluster
- This cluster, owned by the Department of Computer Science and
Computer Engineering, has thirty-two cluster nodes and an
additional network access computer. Each computer
consists of dual Pentium III 1GHz processors, with
512MB memory, and connected via two switched full-duplex Fast
Ethernet network interfaces. Eight of the nodes are also
connected with a second-generation Myrinet switched network.
Papers
- A. Apon, P. Wolinski, D. Reed, G. Amerson, P. Gorjala.
Massive Data Processing on the
Acxiom Cluster Testbed,
Commercial Applications for High Performance Computing, held
as a part of SPIE 2001, Denver, Colorado, August 19-23, 2001. The
PowerPoint presentation from
the talk.
- A. Apon, P. Wolinski, and G. Amerson,
Sensitivity of I/O
Server Selection for Cluster File Systems, International Conference on
Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid2002, Berlin, Germany, May
21-24, 2002. The
PowerPoint presentation from
the talk.
Last modified on March 27, 2002.
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