Year |
Month |
Milestone |
2003 |
November |
S. F. Novaes, E. M. Gregores: “Thematic Project” approved by FAPESP |
|
Procurement processes for buying hardware starts |
2004 |
January |
Installation of physical infrastructure starts at University of São Paulo |
March |
“Phase I” deployed: SPRACE starts processing D0 jobs |
September |
One million MC events processed for D0 collaboration |
November |
SC´04 record of data transmission (~ 2 Gbps) |
2005 |
March |
3.5 million MC events & 1 TB of data generated for D0 |
June |
"Phase II” deployed: 115 cores & 12 TB storage |
July |
US Open Science Grid (OSG) comes to live |
August |
SPRACE signs membership with OSG |
2006 |
|
New WDM channel (ANSP): SPRACE @ 1 Gbps |
|
SPRACE starts processing jobs for CMS VO of OSG |
September |
“Phase III” deployed: 180 cores & 12 TB disk |
2007 |
|
New sysadmins for SPRACE starts |
|
Discussion (ANSP) to deploy a CA for the State of São Paulo |
|
New UNESP campus connected to MetroSampa network |
2008 |
March |
SPRACE domain: from “if.usp.br” to “sprace.org.br” |
September |
LHC first beam |
October |
New Thematic approved |
November |
NCC is officially created |
2009 |
January |
Construction of NCC datacenter at new UNESP campus starts |
April |
FAPESP signs MoU with WLCG: BR-SP-SPRACE is now official |
|
SPRACE cluster transferred from USP to UNESP (~ 5 tons in 32 hours) |
September |
Inauguration of NCC datacenter and GridUnesp infrastructure |
November |
SC´09 in Portland: new record of data transmission (~8.8 Gbps) |
2010 |
January |
New router (FAPESP): NCC connected to KyaTera & MetroSampa |
August |
SPRACE “Phase IV” deployed: 200 TB of storage |
|
New amplifiers (Padtec) on Kyatera network: 10 Gbps from NCC-ANSP |
December |
São Paulo OSG School: 5 experts from US: 30+ participants |
2011 |
|
KyaTera network at NCC in production: 10G (commodity) + 10G (R&D) |
March |
GridUNESP presented at OSG-AHM´11 (Harvard Univ.) |
|
Partnership Intel: development of cloud at the Secretary of Education |
2012 |
May |
NCC Workshop for training system administrators in HPC |
June |
SPRACE “Phase V” deployed: ~850 TB storage (1 PB raw) |
August |
IGTF approves ANSP Grid CA |
November |
SC´12: SPRACE-Padtec-Caltech demonstration of 100G link |
2013 |
July |
NCC server used at INFIERI Summer School (Oxford) |
August |
NCC/SP and COPPE/RJ:“Intel Software Conference” |
November |
SC´13: OpenFlow exercise & new demo with Padtec |
2014 |
July |
NCC server used at the second INFIERI Summer School (Paris) |
August |
NCC selected as a Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) |
November |
SC´14 demonstration |