Preparing Your Campus for Data-Intensive Researchers

drupal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:08:18 -0500

The NSF-funded OptIPuter project has been exploring how user-controlled high-bandwidth dedicated lightwaves (lambdas) can provide direct access to global data repositories, scientific instruments, and computational resources from the researchers' Linux clusters in their campus laboratories. These clusters are reconfigured as OptIPortals, providing the end users with local scalable visualization, computing, and storage. This session will report on several campuses that have deployed this high-performance cyberinfrastructure and describe how this user-configurable OptIPuter global platform opens new frontiers in research.

High-Performance Cluster Computing: A Tool for Undergraduate Instruction?

drupal — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:07:14 -0500

High-performance computing clusters (HPCCs) are common entities in research labs and departments. They provide cost-effective computation-intensive environments that are built and tuned to address specific problems. However, as workstations and PCs have become commodities, the viability of using HPCCs to support undergraduate assignments, problem sets, and projects may be approaching.

EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Cluster Computing

Preparing Your Campus for Data-Intensive Researchers

High-Performance Cluster Computing: A Tool for Undergraduate Instruction?