Project Overview

The UT Grid project vision is to integrate the numerous and diverse computational, visualization, storage, data, and instrument/device resources of The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) into a comprehensive campus cyberinfrastructure for research and education. The integration of these vast resources - from 'personal scale' to terascale - into UT Grid will enable resource access and sharing on an unprecedented scale, while new Web-based and command-line interfaces will facilitate new models for utilization and coordination. The development team goals of rapid deployment, adoption, and evolution of UT Grid will enable it to serve as production computing infrastructure in late 2004 (both research and education), while also providing a platform for grid computing R&D. UT Grid will thus present a unique campus environment for knowledge discovery and education.