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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
Thoughts
Until we have a 2017 CC* RFP announcements this is a list of random thoughts to keep track of.
Leverage a common HPC environment among small, northeast, colleges
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,Middlebury,Trinity,Wellesley,Wesleyan,Williams
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 7.2/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 or InCommon or …?
Collaborative non-member account requests?
Meetings, ofcourse
of sysadmin group
of advisory group
Data Management Plan
To satisfy NSF public data access policy and distribution
One site for all (Islandora, Dspace, ???). One members' expertise?
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