UCD IT SERVICES Research IT Service

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UCD IT SERVICESResearch IT Service
Fred Clarke, Head of Research IT Service IUISC
2007
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IT Services Structure
Mary Crowe Chief Information Technology Officer
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Background

• Electronic Information Communications Strategy
• IT Technical Architecture
• The Requirements for IT to Support UCDs Research
  Activities

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Research Requirements Report

• Governance
• Steering Group, sponsored by Prof. Desmond
  Fitzgerald, Vice-President for Research, UCD
• Research IT Team
• Research IT Services

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Research IT Services

• HPC compute clusters
• Training
• Visualisation
• Data centre Hosting
• Networks Security

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HPC Compute Clusters

• Shared cluster
• IT Services nodes
• Community cluster
• UCD Research groups and IT Services contribute
  nodes
• IT host and manage the service
• Commodity servers
• Redhat O/S
• Open source compilers and scheduler

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Training courses

• Security
• HPC Cluster
• Post Graduate Induction

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Visualisation

• UCD IT Services in collaboration with the School
  of Computer Science and Informatics
• Dr. Aaron Quigley Dr. Hamish Carr
• Est. the IVG (Imaging Visualisation and Graphics)
  research group in 2006
• Enabling collaboration between UCD research groups

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Visualisation the lab

• Graphics cluster
• Projectors
• APro dual AMD Opteron
• Nvidia gpu
• IBM DCV
• Chromium

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Data Centre the service

• Research IT Data Hosting Centre
• UCD Colleges Institutes allocated IT equipment
  hosting space
• UCD IT Services manage the hosting environment

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Data Centre The project

• Tender Autumn 2005, award Jan 2006
• Hewlett Packard Ireland Limited
• E-Tec Mercury electric
• Build March September 06
• APC InfrastruXure www.apcc.com
• UCD President, Dr Hugh Brady, officially opened
  the new Research IT Data Centre at the Research
  IT Service launch on Wednesday, 15 November 2006.

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Data Centre APC InfastruXure
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Data Centre the layout
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Data Centre capacity
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Other Services

• Networks
• Security
• Video Conferencing
• Data Storage
• Helpdesk
• Consultancy
• Communications

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In 2007 we will

• Complete the set of services and conclude the
  Requirements report
• Contribute to UCD IT Services new IT Strategy
  for UCD (2008 2012)

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Thank you

• Q A
• Fred Clarke, Head of IT Service
• fred.clarke_at_ucd.ie 01-7162897
• www.ucd.ie/itservices