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cluster:189 [2020/01/13 08:01]
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 ==== History ==== ==== History ====
  
-In 2006, 4 Wesleyan faculty members approached ITS with a proposal to centrally manage a high performance computing center (HPCC) seeding the effort with an NSF grant (about $190K, two racks full of Dell PE1950, a total of 256 physical cpu cores on Infiniband). ITS offered 0.5 FTE for a dedicated "hpcadmin". An Advisory Group was formed by these faculty plus hpcadmin (5 members, not necessarily our current "power users"). Another NSF grant reward was added in 2010 (about $105K). An alumni donation followed in 2016 (about $10K).  In 2018 the first instance of "faculty startup monies" was contributed to the HPCC (about $92K, see "Priority Policy" below). In 2019, a TrueNAS/ZFS appliance was purchased (about $40K, [[cluster:186|Home Dir Server]]) followed in 2020 by a GPU expansion project (about $96K, [[cluster:181|2019 GPU Models]]). The latter two were self-funded expenditures, see "Funding Policy" below. To view the NSF grants visit [[cluster:169|Acknowledgement]]+In 2006, 4 Wesleyan faculty members approached ITS with a proposal to centrally manage a high performance computing center (HPCC) seeding the effort with an NSF grant (about $190K, two racks full of Dell PE1950, a total of 256 physical cpu cores on Infiniband). ITS offered 0.5 FTE for a dedicated "hpcadmin". An Advisory Group was formed by these faculty plus hpcadmin (5 members, not necessarily our current "power users"). Another NSF grant reward was added in 2010 (about $105K). An alumni donation followed in 2016 (about $10K).  In 2018 the first instance of "faculty startup monies" was contributed to the HPCC (about $97.4K, see "Priority Policy" below). In 2019, a TrueNAS/ZFS appliance was purchased (about $40K, [[cluster:186|Home Dir Server]]) followed in 2020 by a GPU expansion project (about $96K, [[cluster:181|2019 GPU Models]]). The latter two were self-funded expenditures, see "Funding Policy" below. To view the NSF grants visit [[cluster:169|Acknowledgement]]
  
 The Advisory Group meets with the user base yearly during the reading week of the Spring semester (early May) before everybody scatters for the summer. At this meeting, the hpcadmin reviews the past year, previews the coming year, and the user base are contributing feedback on progress and problems. The Advisory Group meets with the user base yearly during the reading week of the Spring semester (early May) before everybody scatters for the summer. At this meeting, the hpcadmin reviews the past year, previews the coming year, and the user base are contributing feedback on progress and problems.
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