Research Support Projects

•  Supercomputer clusters

– Pleiades – 2007

– Hyades – 2013

•  Dark fiber

–  Northbound – 2009

–  Southbound – 2015(?)

•  Cancer Genome Hub (CGhub) – 2012

•  Science DMZ – 2015

Pleiades

11/2004- 4/2007

$1+M NSF MRI, campus

•  Supercomputer cluster

–  800 cores

–  7.5 TFLOPS (Top500)

–  Astrophysics, Earth & Planetary

Science, Applied Math & Statistics

•  We

–  Contributed funding

–  Provided data center space (HVAC)

–  Coordinated selecMon and installaMon (Shaw)

–  System support (Shaw)

Hyades

10/2011 - 1/2013

•  $1M NSF MRI

•  Supercomputer cluster

–  3008 cores

–  8 Nvidia GPUs

–  3 Intel Xeon Phy

–  60 TFLOPS (no Top500)

•  We

–  Contributed funding

–  Provide data center space

–  Coordinated selecMon and installaMon (Shaw)

–  System support (Shaw) 

Northbound dark fiber

 11/2005 – 9/2009

•  $3.5M UCOP

•  50 route miles to Sunnyvale

•  We

–  Defined and socialized need.

–  Developed (many) options.

–  Managed implementation.

 Southbound dark fiber

11/2011 – 12/2015(?)

•  $13.3M CPUC, Sunesys, UCSC

•  91 route miles to Soledad

•  We

–  Participated in CCBC

–  Dran path (Jim)

–  Did needs analysis for proposal –  Wrote proposal

–  Otherwise, supported CENIC

•  Lobbying

•  Sunesys negoMaMons 12/16/2014

Cancer Genome Hub

1/2011 – 4/2012

•  $10.6M NIH

•  Archive for tumor genomes sequenced in NCI projects.

•  We

–  Network architects

–  Data center advisors

NSF CC-NIE 100 Gbps Science DMZ •  1/2014 – 12/2015(?)

•  $500K NSF NIE

•  Improve support for “big data”

•  Goals

–  100Gbps to CENIC HPR

–  ScienceDMZw/DTN,perfSONAR

–  Distributed to network intensive researchers

•  Genomics

•  Astrophysics

•  SCIPP