1. Equipment The single rack of systems was comprised of a set of low-cost 1U and 2U Supermicro servers. 1U Servers  Qty 32    Supermicro 6015URB server  Processor  Dual Intel E5345 2.33 GHz quad-core  RAM  8GB  Hard Disks  4 x 750GB Western Digital SATA-II  NIC  1 x 10GbE  HBA   1 x QLogic 2462 (in 8 sevrers only)  2U Servers  Qty 4    Supermicro X7DBE+ motherboard  Processor  Intel E5345 2.33 GHz quad-core

Apart from regular SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge, this year the focus of the exhibit was the HEP teams record-breaking demonstration of storage-to-storage data transfer over wide area networks from a single rack of servers on the exhibit floor.

Physicists at the LHC will break new ground at the high energy frontier when the accelerator and the experiments CMS and ATLAS begin operation in 2008, searching for the Higgs particles thought to be responsible for mass in the universe, for supersymmetry, and for other fundamentally new phenomena bearing on the nature of matter and spacetime. In order to fully exploit the potential wealth for scientific discoveries, a global-scale grid