On XSEDE, what is Ranger (TACC)?
On the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Ranger is the Sun Constellation system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
For system specifications and user documentation, see the Ranger user guide.
Note: Longhorn (TACC), the Dell/NVIDIA visualization and data analysis cluster, is an ideal companion resource for working with large data sets created on Ranger. Longhorn can directly access Ranger's Lustre parallel file system through a 10 GigE network link.
For more about XSEDE compute, advanced visualization, storage, and special purpose systems, see the Resources Overview and Resource Monitor. For scheduled maintenance windows, outages, and other announcements related to XSEDE digital services, see User News.
This document was developed with support from National Science Foundation (NSF) grant OCI-1053575. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Last modified on April 26, 2012.







