Research Infrastructure Services Projects
The Research Infrastructure Services projects are part of the RIS mission to facilitate the discovery of knowledge and enhance educational opportunities by providing secure, sustainable, scalable, and integrated research technology services in a collaborative and diverse environment. These capital projects have been approved and funded by governance, and implementation project teams have been established to help gather requirements and facilitate the education and consumption of these new services. The PPMO of the CIO manages these projects.
Data Storage Upgrade
After one year of gathering requirements and executing RFPs and POCs, Qumulo was selected as the new vendor for the Storage Solution Project. This new platform will provide twice the performance, reduce operational complexities, and include offsite backups and disaster recovery capabilities. Storage2 is available for general use, new allocations, and condos. The transition will vary depending on the research group.
By the numbers:
- 5.5PB Acitve Storage
- 21 Nodes
- SMB, NFS, Object
- 40GB/s throughput
- Data backups offsite for 30 days
- 4.13PB Offsite Disaster Recovery
SCOPE (Scientific Compute Operation Platform Expansion)
The RIS team has completed each vendor’s delivery, installation, and configuration of hardware and are working on configuring the new SLURM job scheduler and supporting systems. We have selected early adopters for usability and performance testing to ensure our cluster infrastructure meets Compute2’s highest performance, security, and reliability standards.
We are targeting June 2025 for general availability.
By the numbers:
- 5000 Intel CPU Cores
- 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs
- 200 Gigabit network adapters
- 1PB Vast scratch storage