Research Computing Services from NACS

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Research Computing Services from NACS

• Very quick tour of current services to faculty
  and students
• Even quicker tour of what may be coming soon!

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Research Computing Support Group Services

• Group Led by Frank Wessel
• Team Members
• Tony Soeller (GIS expert, SDSC Services)
• Harry Mangalam (Bio computing, Open Source
  software expert)
• Frank Wessel (mathematical software, numerical
  simulations)
• Students

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Research Computing Applications

• Scientific and Research Software site and bulk
  licensing of application software
• SAS, SPSS, SigmaPlot, JMP, Stata
• Mathematica, Matlab
• LabView
• ArcGIS
• DNASTAR, Lasergene

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Computer and Support Resources

• MPC Cluster (mpc.uci.edu)
• SDSC Consortium Resources
• DCS System Administration Services for clusters,
  servers, and high-end workstations
• Academic Data Center Co-location cluster housing
  services

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Coming Soon!

• Broadcom Donated Compute Servers (430 of them!)
• Augmented MPC resources for campus users
• Distributed and Unified Cluster (600 CPUs)
• Distribution to campus research groups not
  needing cluster/parallel system (through
  proposals to Office of Research)
• Scientific Software servers for occasional use of
  scientific applications (replacing part of gradEA
  functionality)

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What other services would you want and need?

• Tell us at the Town Hall meeting this afternoon!