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NSF CC*
- Create a $1M+ 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' participants
2017
- Data Driven Multi-Campus/Multi-Institution Model, or/and Cyber Team
- RFP mid March?
- RFI CC* (due Arpil 5th, 2017) at https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2017/nsf17031/nsf17031.jsp
- Pull Wesleyan brain storm meeting together
2016
- Need to find an example of somewhat larger colleges' successful proposal
Thoughts
Until we have a 2017 CC* RFP here is a list of random thoughts to keep track of.
* leveraging a common environment and skill set amongst small, northeast, liberal arts colleges
- we do science too
- 2-4 sysadmin FTEs covering 4-8 colleges for 3 years
- redundancy in sysadmin coverage, round robin
- each member to assess how to provide funding past year 3
- possible: Hampton, Middlebury, Trinity, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams
* each member will do an internal survey of local computing and storage desires
- gpu, cpu, hybrid of such, visualization, deep learning…one rack (no UPS, compute nodes)
- infiniband enabled /home storage with ipoib, ethernet backups with snapshots, head node…one rack (switches, UPS)
- possible off site backup of /home, round robin
* hardware desires vetted for too much redundancy
- custom hardware requests highlight each member's area of expertise
* leveraging a common HPC deployment software stack
- OpenHPC with shared deployment modules
- user account creation
- each members' users may request accounts at any other member's hardware
* annual and bi-annual meetings
- of sysadmins
- of researchers
* develop platform for data preservation and public access
- data distribution plan
