The UC Teraport Cluster The Teraport Cluster is a project of the Computation Institute (a joint entity of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory). Goals of the Teraport Cluster include: providing computing resources to the University of Chicago scientific community; implementing multi-grid interoperability by acting as a portal to other Grid fabrics. providing a research testbed for the University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidates; The multi-purpose cluster is heterogeneous in both its projects and in its design. Projects span multiple disciplines in the physical and social sciences, including: high-energy physics; computer science; genetics; bioinformatics; astrophysics; sociology; and economics. Cluster topology The 114-node IBM e1350 eServer cluster is based upon the AMD Operton architecture. Each IBM e325 node has two 2.2 GHz AMD64 processors, 4 GB RAM, and 80 GB local disk. The network storage consists of an 10 TB FAStT array exported as four IBM GPFS partitions. The Torque/Maui job management system, Hadoop framework, Globus Grid services, and a variety of scientific software applications run on top of the cluster's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system. Utilities available: Check status of the cluster nodes with the Ganglia Cluster Toolkit. The Teraport Wiki provides an evolving documentation resource for the project. Apply for a Teraport account. Select "Teraport" as a resource. All Teraport accounts require an SSHv2 public key for authentication. Please refer to the user support page on the Teraport TWiki for further details. The cluster resides in the Research Institutes building on the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus. The Teraport Project was originally funded by the National Science Foundation, Award No. 0321253.