ITLC Members,
As discussed in last week's conference
call, here is a description of the computing cluster survey that
contains background on the October UC Research Cyberinfrastructure
meeting, describing the motivation for this survey. I hope I have
worded this in a manner that will be easy for you to use to solicit
responses on your campus.
Could you help to gather this
information for your campus? A template that respondents can
paste into an electronic mail message, along with their responses,
follows at the end of this message. The responses should be
sent to Connie.Geraghty@ucop.edu
by Monday, October 3, 2005. We will provide copies of a
summary of the responses to all
respondents.
In February, 2005, UC's Information
Technology leaders and Vice Chancellors for Research held a joint
meeting to discuss UC’s "cyberinfrastructure” requirements for
future research competitiveness. Meeting information can be found
at: http://www.ucop.edu/irc/itlc/meetings/feb2005.html.
These groups, in partnership with the California Institutes for
Science and Innovation http://www.ucop.edu/california-institutes
and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
(CENIC http://www.cenic.org/),
are sponsoring a follow-on meeting at the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2, http://www.calit2.net/) on October
10-11, 2005. .The goals for this meeting are the following:
- Motivate NSF cyberinfrastructure funding opportunities and
position UC to benefit from such opportunities
- Identify current UC research computing infrastructure
capabilities and best practices throughout UC
- Understand strategic directions in UC research (and related
requirements for cyberinfrastructure) and identify the drivers for
UC-wide collaboration
- Develop an architecture or blueprint for UC research
cyberinfrastructure
- Forge the internal and external UC partnerships required for
success.
For more information about the October 10-11,
2005 meeting, please see the meeting agenda and related materials at
http://www.ucop.edu/irc/itlc/cyber.htm.
In
order to begin to understand current research computing
capabilities, we are compiling an inventory of campus computing
clusters, including the following list of items.
- Cluster Name
- Contact name, electronic mail address, etc.
- Research area
- # of nodes
- # of processors per node
- Type of processor and GHz
- Operating System
- Interconnect
- Transmission speed of the connection to the Internet / campus
network
- Source of system support (e.g., within the research
group, departmental or campus support group)
- Notable local applications developed (optional)
- Open Source applications used (optional)
- Commercial applications used (optional)
The responses should be
sent to Connie.Geraghty@ucop.edu by Monday, October 3, 2005. We will provide
copies of a summary of the responses to all respondents.
Please contact David Walker (dhwalker@ucdavis.edu) if
you have any questions.
David
Walker
Director, Advanced
Technology
UCOP
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Research Computing Survey
Cluster Name:
Contact Name:
Electronic Mail:
Telephone:
Research Area:
# of Nodes:
# of Processors per Node:
Type of Processor and GHz:
Operating System:
Interconnect:
Transmission Speed of Internet Connection:
Source of System Support:
Notable Local Applications Developed (optional):
Open Source Applications Used (optional):
Commercial Applications Used (optional):
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