Hardware and Software

Sun 9990V Disk Storage System
Oracle SL8500 Automated Tape Library – Offsite Facility
Oracle SL8500 Automated Tape Library – NIH Data Center
STK VSM Virtual Storage Manager (virtual tapes)
STK 9840 ultra high performance magnetic tape drives
Brocade 7500 high-speed channel extenders
2105ES cut-sheet laser printers
4245 impact printers
OSA Express3 network interface cards
Crypto Express3 cryptographic co-processor cards

Peripherals are available to all processors, providing non-idle redundancy and minimal disruption of service in the event of any subsystem or component failure.

 z/OS System Software

 z/OS Operating System

The IBM z/OS Operating System uses job control language as the user interface
 and the Job Entry Subsystem Version 2 (JES2).

SILK Web Facilities

http://titan.nih.gov
Customized, public, and secure  servers are available for general use. SILK provides online tools that include: directory and account information, management functions, RACF processing, data set listing, batch job submission, secure file transfer, executing TSO commands, and e-mail through a web interface.

Interactive Systems

CICS, ISPF, and TSO

Databases

Model 204, DB2, and IMS

Language Processors

COBOL, VS FORTRAN, PL/I for MVS, REXX, High Level Assembler, and C/C++

Graphics Systems

SAS/GRAPH

Scientific Statistical Systems

SAS, SPSS, and BMDP

Other

File management systems - VISION:Builder, IRS; BookManager online documentation system; Connect:Direct for advanced file exchange; VPS printing service; Interactive Output Facility (IOF) for controlling and examining batch jobs

Connectivity Products for Access to Titan

Full connectivity client software for tn3270 and ftp connections, including secure connections. Supported software includes QWS3270 Secure, web-based secure file transfer, WS_FTP Pro, and SSH. 

zLINUX SYSTEM

zLinux Hardware

The zLinux Virtual Server runs on a single IBM z114 Business Class (BC) model 2818-L03 system, with 3 general purpose processors and 1 Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processor. The system has 48 gigabytes (GB) of memory and a complement of several hundred peripheral devices.The peripheral devices include:

Sun 9990V Disk Storage System
Oracle SL8500 Automated Tape Library – Offsite Facility
Oracle SL8500 Automated Tape Library – NIH Data Center
STK VSM Virtual Storage Manager (virtual tapes)
STK 9840 ultra high performance magnetic tape drives
Brocade 7500 high-speed channel extenders
2105ES cut-sheet laser printers
OSA-Express3 network interface cards
Crypto Express3 cryptographic co-processor cards

Peripherals are available to all processors, providing non-idle redundancy and minimal disruption of service in the event of any subsystem or component failure.

zLinux System Software

The IBM zLinux Operating System under the z/VM hypervisor, uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run multiple virtual Linux servers

Applications that can run in this open source  environment

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/PERL)-based applications -- an interlocking set of technologies on which developers can build and deploy web-based applications, powering:


• Blogs--shared online journals using WordPress
• Content management systems (e.g., Joomla, Drupal, WordPress)
• Wikis--collaborative websites where authorized users can add or modify content using a browser
• An Apache-based front end to an MS SQL server database
• A JAVA-based application using the Resin application server and communicating with a backend MS SQL database on a remote host. 
• Statistical packages and a wide variety of other software
   

UNIX HOSTING SERVICES

The Unix environment is appropriate for any important Unix-based application and has specific capabilities for applications that use Oracle databases.

Unix System Hardware

The standard offering is the SPARC T-Series Oracle servers with 32GB of memory and an 8 or16 core CPU. The M-Series UltraSPARC VII mid-tier servers for database systems are also supported.

Virtual Servers
The Solaris Virtual Server is a counterpart to the Windows Virtual Server and runs on the same hardware.  It provides a VMware environment for applications that require the Solaris operating system but have low memory and CPU requirements. 

An additional virtualization solution is based on the Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMS) environment running on the UltraSPARC-T2 servers.This service is useful for environments that do not need the full power of the T2 server and is an effective way to limit the software license requirements for software provided on a per core basis. 

Other configurations are available depending on application requirements.  

Storage

Unix Hosting Services will provide online storage for data as needed. Storage can be provided on SAN (storage attached networks) or locally attached storage, depending on the system, application, and storage required. Storage is provided in a RAID configuration for reliability.

Unix System Software Overview

Oracle Servers are appropriate for any application that needs more CPU or memory than a virtual server. General uses include web servers, application/mid-tier-servers, and databases, which can be managed by the customer or CIT.

Operating Systems

Oracle Solaris

x86 Solaris on VMware
Redhat Linux on VMware

Oracle on shared or dedicated Unix servers

Connectivity

FISMA-compliant highly available, secure connectivity, such as:

• SSH

Middle Tier Application Servers

    Oracle Application Server    

Windows applications can be hosted on a series of servers that are carefully managed and monitored by CIT on a 7x24 basis. These are HP Enterprise class servers with available fiber-connected SAN storage arrays. This facility provides a computing environment that has been proven suitable for mission-critical, enterprise-wide applications.

Windows Hardware

HP BL460C - Blade Server

Processors - Dual Quad-Core 2.4 GHz standard
Memory - (PC2-5300) standard - expandable to 192 GB
Storage - 2 Internal 146 GB SAS Drives with 128 MB battery backed write cache standard
   Additional storage available via fiber-connected SAN storage arrays
Direct attached storage blade available (730 GB maximum size)
Network – Dual 1GB NIC (Teamed for redundancy)

HP BL685C Blade Server

Processors - Quad Eight-Core 2.4 GHz standard
Memory - (PC2-5300) standard - expandable to 192 GB
    Additional storage available via fiber-connected SAN storage arrays

Storage - 2 Internal 146 GB SAS Drives with 128MB battery backed write cache standard
Network – Dual 1 GB NIC (Teamed for redundancy)

Virtual Servers
The Windows Virtual Server service allows multiple operating system instances to pull resources from a cluster of servers in a VMware managed environment.
 

Windows Application Software

Operating System
    Windows 2008 64 bit Standard and Enterprise Editions
    Windows 2008R2 64 bit Standard and Enterprise Editions
    Windows 2008R2 SP2 64 bit Standard and Enterprise Editions

HELIX SYSTEMS

http://helix.nih.gov, http://biowulf.nih.gov

The NIH Helix Systems manage high-performance computing systems for the NIH intramural scientific community. The staff provides training, documentation and consulting for the resources on these systems. The front-end 64-processor system (with the network name helix.nih.gov) has 1 TB of main memory and is used for many scientific applications as well as general purpose tasks, such as reading mail, transferring files, and web browsing.

Helix Systems Hardware

The main interactive system for scientific computing, helix.nih.gov, has 64 processors and 1 TB of memory.

Helix Systems Software

http://helix.nih.gov/apps

http://biowulf.nih.gov/apps/

OTHER SERVICES

• Co-Location services to house customer-owned equipment, both on-and off-campus
  Central Email Service - email and messaging services for NIH, including Active Directory (AD) services
• Disaster recovery program - disaster recovery facilities for "critical" applications that run on Titan and Unix hosted systems
  Google search engine services for NIH websites
• Media Sanitization Service for the secure disposal of storage media