Hi Welcome to my page...
Just in case you made it this far and still don't know... My name is Jim Glasgow. I'm a system programmer for The National Center for Super computing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. NCSA is the the leading edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance, one of two partnerships in the new NSF PACI program.
At NCSA, I have the good fortune to work in the Storage Enabling Technologies Team( HPDM ). The team, led by Michelle Butler , manages many of the Center's production data services. Everything from high performance cluster/parallel file systems to enterprise wide system backups. There are also several pieces of software that we are actively developing and maintaining to support the Center's missions -- UberFtp, Kerberos, SSH, and AWI are but a few.
My responsibilities include planning, development, and support of the Center's storage systems and generally helping out wherever needed. We are fast approaching 1 Peta Byte of online disk storage available to our comptational systems in multiple "SANs". Offline storage to MSS has grown over one PB and is growing at a rater of around 5TB/week. Tivoli Storage Manager is now the center wide backup tool for everthing from laptops to multi teraflop compute clusters.
Links to the rest of the mass storage team: Michelle
Butler , Brad Butler,
Andy Loftus, Jason Alt,
Anthony Tong.
NCSA's Mass Storage system is currently comprised of a SGI, Origin 3900 server with 16 processors and associated hardware running UniTreeCFM 2.4 . The system has 10GB of main memory and over 6TB of system disk.