Three BITS (Bunch of Interconnected Technology Stuff)

The BITS experimental development environment is the result of a collaboration for experimentation in distributed systems involving SUNYIT, Corning Community College and SUNY Geneseo. Combined resources at the three campuses form a heterogeneous testbed that provides a rich environment for student projects, experimentation, research and instruction.

The environment is comprised of workstations running Globus grid and Condor distributed computing software and Linux cluster computers supporting programming environments including Mpich2 MPI libraries. The campuses are also connected with VPNs.

Resources are jointly administered at the participating campuses with direct participation from students. Computers and networking resources are accessible to authorized students who have requested and been allocated accounts on the BITS systems.

The distributed computing environment is changing rapidly. Currently, each campus is contibuting at least 1 Terabyte of storage and around a dozen workstations, with local network connections ranging from 100Mb to 1 Gb. Campus Internet connections range from 5Mb to 30Mb.


Contacts:
SUNYIT
Scott Spetka scott@cs.sunyit.edu http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~scott
Jeff Wells wellsj1@cs.sunyit.edu
jwells2@twcny.rr.com
http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~wellsj1/
CCC Matthew Haas haas@corning-cc.edu http://lab46.corning-cc.edu/haas/home
Geneseo Homma Farian farian@geneseo.edu http://www.ds.geneseo.edu/


Addresses:
The grid machines IP adresses are as follows:
1. ruth.cs.sunyit.edu (192.168.0.20)
2. mantle.cs.sunyit.edu (192.168.0.30)
3. dimagio.cs.sunyit.edu (192.168.0.40)
4. gehrig.cs.sunyit.edu (102.168.0.50)
5. stengal.cs.sunyit.edu (198.168.0.60)
6. jeter.cs.sunyit.edu (198.168.0.70)
7. As of 8/20/2007 rizzuto.cs.sunyit.edu (192.168.0.80)
bitsfs file server is 192.168.14.10
bitsgw is 192.168.14.1 and 192.168.20.200


Projects:

SUNY Geneseo Data Wall


Corning CC LAIRwall - 1280x1024x16bpp - total resolution (including offsets) of 4028x3288


Students:

Jeff Wells - wellsj1@cs.sunyit.edu, jwells2@twcny.rr.com - http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~wellsj1/
Zack Wenzel - zack.root@gmail.com

SUNYIT BITS - 09/27/2007