Establishing field and base camp servers for remote sensing of ice sheets in ilulissat, Greenland

The University of Indiana and Elizabeth City State University are working with the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) to develop and deploy cyberinfrastructure grid computing resources and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data storage capabilities for Greenland and Antarctic fieldwork. This paper will detail the Summer 2008 efforts of the Polar Grid team to configure and establish field and base camp servers. The base camp system consists of one eight-core server, three raid arrays with 34 terabytes (TB) of total storage in a RAID 10 configuration (13 TB useable), a custom designed compact peripheral control interface (CPCI) system, and 80 TB of external storage in the form of 40 two TB MyBook external hard drives. The field camp system also consisted of one eight-core server, but did not contain the raid arrays. Multiple SATA hard drives were used to store the data.