RU-MSU-NJIT.2

Second NJ HPC Federation meeting

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Rutgers, Busch Campus - Computing Research and Education (CoRE) building
96 Frelinghuysen Road, Room 701, Piscataway, NJ 08854
(For GPS purposes, use: 100 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ)
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AuriStorFS presentation

At the 1/19/2018 meeting, it was mentioned that the OpenAFS (OAFS) distributed file system might be of value to the NJHPCFed as a collaborative file system for software distribution, general storage, and documentation.

OAFS features:

• Designed for wide area network
• Single global namespace for all clients
• Clients for all platforms - Linux, MacOS X, Windows, others
• Extremely efficient administration and applications distribution
• Long history of working well and reliably at many institutions and international corporations
• No administrator intervention in making mount points available to all clients, other than creating the mount point
• a single command done on any client
• Read-only replication of volumes
• Scalability - number of clients, volumes, users are readily accommodated
• Fine-grained ACLs
• Machine-based ACLs
• Native Kerberos integration
• Simple enforcement of quotas
• Reconfigurations with no user impact
• On-line backup volumes
• Client caching
• Collaboration via cells across geographic regions

AuriStorFS is a commercial implementation of OAFS with important enhancements in performance, security, capacities, authorization, per-file ACLs, and administration.

Eastern Regional Network (ERN)

Status update

Grant Program: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software

Possible propsal submission April 2019.

Agency: National Science Foundation NSF 18-531

RFP Website

The CSSI umbrella program anticipates four classes of awards:

1. Elements (either Data Elements or Software Elements): These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust capabilities for which there is a demonstrated need that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
2. Framework Implementations (either Data Frameworks or Software Frameworks): These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, resulting in a sustainable community framework serving a diverse community or communities.
3. Planning Grants for Community Cyberinfrastructure (either Community Data Cyberinfrastructure Planning Grants or Community Software Cyberinfrastructure Planning Grants): Planning awards focus on the establishment of long-term capabilities in cyberinfrastructure, which would serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary breadth.
4. Community Cyberinfrastructure Implementations (either Community Data Cyberinfrastructure Implementations or Community Software Cyberinfrastructure Implementations): These Community Software Cyberinfrastructure Implementations focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in cyberinfrastructure and technologies, which will serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary breadth.