High throughput computing is a challenging research area in which a wide range of techniques is employed to harness the power of very large collections of computing resources over long time intervals. The Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin is a campus-wide distributed computing environment designed to meet the scientific computing needs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is built from autonomous sites from across the campus, each engineered to meet their own specific requirements, but cooperating to join with the other sites to serve the ever-growing computing needs of the entire campus. GLOW operations are coordinated by CONDOR software developed by the Condor Team supported by the NSF and UW. As of July 2008 the GLOW network consisted of 1200 2.8 GHz Xeon CPUs, 400 1.8 GHz Opteron cores, and 100 TB of disk storage. Of all current Condor pools, the ChemE department and the MRSEC community constitute the largest user community in GLOW.

A Glow CPU cluster