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Exploratory Meeting

Rutgers Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC)
NJIT Academic and Research Computing Systems (ARCS)
NJIT Core Systems and Technology (CST)

Purpose

Discussion to get a sense of whether there is sufficient synergy and commonality of interests and goals to pursue an on-going collaboration for resource sharing, information exchange, and joint grant proposals.

Date, Time, and Location

10:00AM to 11:30AM
Friday 19 January 2018
GITC 5407, NJIT

Parking will be reserved for all non-NJIT attendees. Directions to NJIT Parking map

Individual ACI-REFs planning on attending should so inform davidp@njit.edu to have parking reserved.

Invitees

NJIT

D. Perel, ARCS
K. Walsh, ARCS
G. Wolosh, ARCS
M. Hoskins, CST
N. Rubio, Information Systems/Research
D. Eadline, consultant

Rutgers

K. Abbey, OARC
W. Abbott, OARC
J. Cain, OARC
E. Marshall, OARC
L. Michelson, OARC
R. Novosielski, OARC
J. Barr von Oehsen, OARC
T. Skipper, OARC
ACI-REFs

Montclair State University

C. Fleming, Information Technology
J. Giacobbe, Enterprise Technology Services

Possible discussion topics (not exhaustive)

Current high performance computing (HPC) and big data (BD) status
One-to-three-year roadmaps
Implementations

OpenHPC
Compute node network
Storage strategy; filesystems; wide-area research network
Software distribution
Hardware vendors
Intra-campus networks
User training

Off-premise HPC

Policy
User training
Vendor-dedicated networks

Off-premise BD

Policy
User training
Vendor-dedicated networks

Follow-up

Depending on what transpires in this meeting, follow-up in the some of the following areas may be appropriate:

Setting up information-sharing mechanisms
Setting up pilot sharing of computational and storage resources
Researching of grant opportunities
Sub-group formations
Sharing of user documentation
Scheduling of next meeting