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== Kong Public-Access SuperMicro 6016T Nodes (public nodes) End of Life ==
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<strong>MEMORANDUM</strong> <table cellpadding=3> <tr><td
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<ul>  
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valign=top>To:    &nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Faculty and Staff</td></tr>
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<li>The legacy operating system on Kong will be EOL'd by the vendor on November 30,
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<tr><td valign=top>From:    &nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Atam P
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2020.</li>
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Dhawan</td></tr> <tr><td valign=top>Date:
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&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday, April 12, 2015</td></tr> <tr><td
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valign=top>RE:    &nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>Open Forum and Grant Opportunity
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Alerts: Issue: ORD-GOA-2015-13</td></tr> </table> <h3
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style="text-align: center;"><strong>Grant Opportunity Alerts: Issue:
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ORD-GOA-2015-13</strong></h3>
  
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        <li>Successor OS versions are incompatible with the public nodes node interconnects.</li>
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<p><strong>In This Issue: NJIT Open Forum Event and Grant Opportunities
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Alert&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<li>The 270 Kong public-access SuperMicro 6016T nodes
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[https://web.njit.edu/topics/hpc/specs/ Kong-7] are more than 10 years old,
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cannot be upgraded to be supported by current operating systems versions, and
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do not support many of the critical applications needed by researchers.</li>
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<li>The public nodes cannot be integrated into OpenHPC, the new cluster framework already
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<p><strong>Event: </strong>NJIT Open Forum on Research Related
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being deployed.</li>
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Processes and Infrastructure Support</p>
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=== Schedules for Removing Kong Public Nodes from Service ===
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<p><strong>When and Where:</strong> 11.30 AM to 1.00 PM, May 1, 2015;
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The Kong public nodes are used for research and courses.
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Room GITC 1100</p>
  
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==== Schedule for Researchers ====
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<p><strong>Organizers: </strong>Faculty Senate and Office of Research
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&amp; Development</p>
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<li>No new research accounts will be added to Kong after 31 July 2020</li>
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<li>The public nodes will be removed from service on 04 January 2021</li>
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<p><strong>Panel Moderator and Host: &nbsp;</strong>Amitabha Bose,
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Faculty Senate President</p>
  
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Notes:
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<p><strong>Panelists: </strong></p>
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<li>The 2 public-access GPU nodes, which also contain CPUs [https://web.njit.edu/topics/hpc/specs/ Kong-6],
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will be migrated to OHPC. These will be assigned to a researcher in Physics, who has demonstrated a special
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need for them</li>
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<li>All researcher-purchased and Data Science nodes will continue to be available</li>
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<p>Henry Mauemeyer, Senior Vice President for Administration and
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Treasurer</p>
  
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==== Schedule for Courses ====
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<p>Andrew P. Christ, Vice President for Real Estate Development and
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Capital Operations</p>
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<li>Courses will not have access to the 270 public nodes after 04 January 2021</li>
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== Public-Access Node Provisioning ==
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<p>Atam Dhawan, Interim Vice Provost for Research, Office of
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=== Phase 1: FY2021 ===
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Research</p>
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<li>Phase 1 provides a basic computational, node interconnect, and storage infrastructure
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that will provide resoutrces adequate for many researchers to largely continue their
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work at its present level, and which can be built upon as additional funding becomes
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available</li>
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<li>Phase 1 should be in place by 04 January 2021, and sooner if possible.
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<p>Dave Ullman, Associate Provost for Information Services</p>
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[https://wiki.hpc.arcs.njit.edu/external/MWYQ27065.pdf Phase 1 cost estimate]</li>
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<li>It is assumed that Phase 1 equipment will be housed in the GITC 5302 data center,
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<p>Maria La Lima, Director, Accounts Payable</p>
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pending the possible construction of an HPC data center elsewhere on campus.</li>
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=== Phase 2: FY2022 ===
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<p>Ritu Kumar, Payroll Manager</p>
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While Phase 1 will provide resources for many researchers to continue at their current level,
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it would not provide adequate resources for researchers to expand the scope of their work, or
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to attract new researchers.
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The purpose of Phase 2 is the expansion on the foundation implemented in Phase 1 to provide
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<p>Norman J. Van Houten, Director, Health &amp; Environmental
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resources commensurate with the goals of an R1 university.
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Safety</p>
  
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The required funding for Phase 2 is expected to be at about the same level as that for Phase 1.
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<p>Kamal Joshi, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources</p>
  
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== New Researcher Purchases ==
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<p>Jeanie Regencio, Director, Purchasing Department</p>
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Researchers can continue to purchase equipment that will be dedicated to their use
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(and shareable via SLURM), as part of the OpenHPC Lochness cluster.
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However, there is no more rack capacity in the GITC 5302 data center to accommodate additional
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<p><strong>Brief Description and Call for Questions:</strong>
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equipment. The racks in which the public nodes are now housed cannot be used for modern nodes,
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Representatives from several NJIT offices that impact your research
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due to form factor mis-match.
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will be present to answer questions and listen to your suggestions in
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order to improve the efficiency of research related processes and
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Any racks needed for new purchases - and any needed additional electric power and HVAC - would have
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protocols. It will be a moderated forum where representatives from
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to be somehow provided in order to accommodate such purchases.
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Office of Research, Purchasing, Account Payable, Computing Services,
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Payroll, Human Resources, Physical Plant and Safety will be joining the
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== Cloud Provisioning ==
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panel. The Faculty Senate committee of research, scholarship and
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[https://www.rescale.com/ Rescale] is cloud computing platform combining scientific software with
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creativity is now soliciting your questions and suggestions for the
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high performance computing. Rescale takes advantage of commercial cloud computing vendors such as AWS,  
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above offices as well as the whole NJIT research infrastructure. Please
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Azure and Google Cloud to provide compute cycles as well as storage. The Rescale services also include
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send all your questions to Jay Meegoda
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applications setup, and billing. Thus, Rescale provides a pay-as-you-go method for researchers to use
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[mailto:Meegoda@NJIT.edu Meegoda@NJIT.edu] before Monday
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commercial cloud services - e.g., Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
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April 20. On Tuesday April 21 Jay Meegoda, Amit Bose and Atam Dhawan
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will review your questions and send them to corresponding NJIT offices
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The cost of supporting the Rescale infrastructure is a one-time fee of $12K for setup, and $99/month thereafter
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to prepare for the forum. At the forum your questions will be asked by
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for VPN access. Funding for the computation and storage costs incurred by the researcher at a
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Amit Bose and the panel
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commercial cloud provider will be determined by the researcher and administration.
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Latest revision as of 16:34, 5 October 2020

MEMORANDUM
To:   Faculty and Staff
From:   Atam P Dhawan
Date:   Sunday, April 12, 2015
RE:   Open Forum and Grant Opportunity Alerts: Issue: ORD-GOA-2015-13

Grant Opportunity Alerts: Issue: ORD-GOA-2015-13

In This Issue: NJIT Open Forum Event and Grant Opportunities Alert  

Event: NJIT Open Forum on Research Related Processes and Infrastructure Support

When and Where: 11.30 AM to 1.00 PM, May 1, 2015; Room GITC 1100

Organizers: Faculty Senate and Office of Research & Development

Panel Moderator and Host:  Amitabha Bose, Faculty Senate President

Panelists:

Henry Mauemeyer, Senior Vice President for Administration and Treasurer

Andrew P. Christ, Vice President for Real Estate Development and Capital Operations

Atam Dhawan, Interim Vice Provost for Research, Office of Research

Dave Ullman, Associate Provost for Information Services

Maria La Lima, Director, Accounts Payable

Ritu Kumar, Payroll Manager

Norman J. Van Houten, Director, Health & Environmental Safety

Kamal Joshi, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources

Jeanie Regencio, Director, Purchasing Department

Brief Description and Call for Questions: Representatives from several NJIT offices that impact your research will be present to answer questions and listen to your suggestions in order to improve the efficiency of research related processes and protocols. It will be a moderated forum where representatives from Office of Research, Purchasing, Account Payable, Computing Services, Payroll, Human Resources, Physical Plant and Safety will be joining the panel. The Faculty Senate committee of research, scholarship and creativity is now soliciting your questions and suggestions for the above offices as well as the whole NJIT research infrastructure. Please send all your questions to Jay Meegoda Meegoda@NJIT.edu before Monday April 20. On Tuesday April 21 Jay Meegoda, Amit Bose and Atam Dhawan will review your questions and send them to corresponding NJIT offices to prepare for the forum. At the forum your questions will be asked by Amit Bose and the panel

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