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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== HPC Location Matrix ==<br />
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This matrix lists the pros and cons of types of HPC hardware ownership and hardware locations.<br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;">Hardware owned<br />by institution </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> On-campus </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Strongly preferred by NJIT researchers using HPC </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Hardware will not stay current without funded timely re-fresh </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;">4</td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Provides maximum control for researchers and administrators </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Expansion is limited by physical space, and power and HVAC requirements </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;">5</td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> [[ HPCBaseline ]] provides guaranteed capability for researchers without and with their own funding </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Expansion of resources takes months, compared to typically less than 1 hour for cloud </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Researchers who own hardware have continued use of that hardware when their funding runs out </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> For HPC use patterns, less expensive than commercial cloud </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Easily integrated into the NJIT AFS software environment </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Can be expanded into the cloud as needed and funded </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Colorado School of Mines (peer institution) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QW83O9n26o2mQmhxq5T6pDEzrh2mROLmu0HMPeqnBwE/edit?ts=5c6c2ed2 stance] </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> [https://wiki.hpc.arcs.njit.edu/external/surveys/campchamp/Jan2019.results.pdf Campus Champions On/off-premise HPC] </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> See: 1)Last bullet in "Section 1 responses"<br />2) Next to last bullet in "Section 2 responses" </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;">12</td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Off-campus </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Co-location </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Differences from "On-campus": Item 4, Diminished control for administrators; Item 8, Integration may be problematical </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Differences from "On-campus" None </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Commercial </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Differences from "On-campus": Item 4, Significantly diminished control for administrators; Item 8, Integration likely to be problematical </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Differences from "On-campus" Items 3, 4, 5 do not apply </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Costs are unlnown </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;">17</td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;">Hardware not owned<br />by institution </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Free cloud [1] </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> "Evergreen" - new processors readily available </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Successful proposal needed </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Flexible configuration </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Access ends when proposal period ends </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Expandable, within propsal limits </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Commercial cloud [2] </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> "Evergreen" - new processors readily available </td><br />
<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Generally more expensive for HPC than owned hardware </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Flexible configuration </td><br />
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<td style="border:1px solid black;"> Rapidly expandable </td><br />
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<strong>Legend</strong><br /><br />
[1] E.g., XSEDE<br />
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[2] E.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Penguin<br />
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