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https://nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18508/nsf18508.htm
Due Jan 30, 2018, totally refocused on network, killing the ideas on this page
— Henk 2017/12/06 08:50
NSF CC*
Create a $1 Million+ CC* proposal to meet the research, staff and cyberinfrastructure
Needs/Wants of small, primarily undergraduate, northeast Higher Ed institutions
To share faculty expertise (current research projects and new collaborations)
To share staff expertise (deploy and support, sustain after grant period)
To share unique computational capabilities in a variety of disciplines
Establish a single, participants' wide, user directory with global access
Provide for multiple off-site, geographically dispersed, backup storage targets
Establish a global Data Management Plan for all institutions participation
2017
Data Driven Multi-Campus/Multi-Institution Model, or/and Cyber Team
RFP mid March? More like May/June (found 2016 announcement via AdvancedClustering of 06/02/2016)
2016
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Henk to find an example of somewhat larger colleges' successful proposal in 2016
Probably more aligned with our goals, click on PDF
Regional Access a report to NSF, good read
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Thoughts
Until we have a 2017 CC* RFP announcements this is a list of random thoughts to keep track of.
2016 Parsing of proposal language (Science-driven requirements are the primary motivation for any proposed activity.)
Data Driven Multi-Campus/Multi-Institution Model Implementations,1-2 awards,$3M,4 years
NSF strongly urges the community to think broadly and not simply rely on traditional models when considering multi-campus and/or multi-institutional cyberinfrastructure
Proposals are expected to be science-driven
Proposals…significant impact on the multi-campus, multi-institutional … through direct engagements…how adoption and usage will be measured and monitored
methods for assured federated access
Multi-institution/regional caliber data preservation and access lifecycles
across a range of disciplines, including participating institutions’ information technology (IT)
Cyber Team,2-4 awards,$1.5M,3 years
This program area seeks to build centers of expertise and knowledge in cyberinfrastructure
Proposals in this area should describe the multi-institutional science-driven needs
Proposals … engagement, interactions, and partnerships with science and engineering research as well as education and training activities.
Proposals …areas of expertise, such as networking, distributed data management, and scientific computing.
Proposals may request up to four full-time equivalents (FTE) for up to three years (inside of $1.5M???)
Proposals should describe plans for broadening participation, including how under-resourced institutions can be meaningfully engaged.
Leverage a common HPC environment among small, northeast, colleges
we do science too (compare to larger colleges)
need to drive proposal with unique science efforts by each college ←– important!
think about how to build the data driven multi campus effort
1-3 sysadmin FTEs covering 3-6 colleges for 3 years
redundancy in sysadmin coverage, round robin
each member to assess how to provide funding past year 3
Possible Members (underlined=informally contacted, bolded=interested party):
Hamilton,
Lafayette, engineering college HPC
Middlebury, ?
Swarthmore, ?
Trinity, image analysis
Wellesley, ?
Wesleyan, Gaussian HPC, text mining HPC
Williams, Islandora DMP
Each member will do an internal survey of local computing and storage desires, put together 1-2 racks
gpu, cpu, hybrid of such, visualization, deep learning,etc…(no UPS, compute nodes)
infiniband enabled /home storage with ipoib, head node (both on UPS), sandbox
ethernet storage for backup with snapshots (LVM or rsnapshot.org) (on UPS, switches)
possible off site backup of data, round robin, among members
Hardware desires/configs to be vetted for too much redundancy
Each site should offer something unique
Shared with whole community of members
Custom hardware requests highlight each member's area of expertise
Leverage a common HPC deployment software stack
OpenHPC (openhpc.community) with shared deployment modules (CentOS 7.x/Warewulf/Slurm)
Application software modules to deploy per members' requirements
Commercial software? (License type would need to be discussed with vendors)
Shared skill set with experts in certain specific areas and tools
Facilitate classroom usage (local temp accounts recycled by semester?)
User account creation
Participants can request accounts on each members' installation
Local accounts with request workflow, SSH keys federation InCommon or …?
Collaborative non-member account requests?
Meetings, ofcourse
of sysadmin group
of advisory group
Data Management Plan (DMP)
To satisfy NSF public data access policy and distribution
One site for all (Islandora, Dataverse, or ???). One members' expertise?
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