Submission Number: 46
Submission ID: 72
Submission UUID: e6af7bed-ffd8-44a4-8dab-c9da0fe05c9f
Submission URI: /form/project

Created: Wed, 06/17/2020 - 21:12
Completed: Wed, 06/17/2020 - 21:20
Changed: Fri, 07/10/2020 - 17:19

Remote IP address: 96.252.12.25
Submitted by: Scott Valcourt
Language: English

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Webform: Project
Project Title Centralizing Computation Resources for Sea Floor Mapping
Program
Project Leader Scott Valcourt
Email sav@unh.edu
Mobile Phone
Work Phone 603-862-4489
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Project Description This project will assist in the migration of data and computational resources from departmental facilities located in the Chase OE Building to the Research Computing Center in Morse Hall using HPC resources in the Lenharth Data Center.

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This project will merge the hardware and operations tasks taking place in two data centers at UNH into one HPC center at UNH.
Project Deliverables Integration of hardware from two data centers into one center.
Project Deliverables
Student Research Computing Facilitator Profile Students involved in this project will likely be undergraduate students with an interest in system design and programming HPC devices. A lack of a fear of working with hardware and software is most desired.
Mentee Research Computing Profile
Student Facilitator Programming Skill Level
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Project Institution University of New Hampshire
Project Address 268 Mast Road
NHPBS
Durham, New Hampshire. 03824
Anchor Institution NE-University of New Hampshire
Preferred Start Date 12/15/2017
Start as soon as possible.
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What will the student learn? The students involved in this project will learn about the current and emerging high performance computing (HPC) hardware and software environment, the operations of HPC including queues and system administration, and the maintenance of these devices in an academic environment.
What will the mentee learn?
What will the Cyberteam program learn from this project? Effective ways to combine hardware into single facilities under the umbrella of a single institution.
HPC resources needed to complete this project? This is more of a meta-HPC project, so the resources themselves are not being used, but the standing up of those resources is the goal.
Notes Final details of this equipment merge are taking place now, so the estimated start date is an estimate and is likely to slip into 2018.
What is the impact on the development of the principal discipline(s) of the project? This project was cancelled as the resources were deployed to a new problem and were no longer available to be merged with the other HPC device.
What is the impact on other disciplines? N/A
Is there an impact physical resources that form infrastructure? N/A
Is there an impact on the development of human resources for research computing? By offering opportunities to construct hardware in the HPC environment, research computing personnel will have a greater opportunity to learn how to work with HPC hardware for the future.
Is there an impact on institutional resources that form infrastructure? N/A
Is there an impact on information resources that form infrastructure? N/A
Is there an impact on technology transfer? N/A
Is there an impact on society beyond science and technology? N/A
Lessons Learned
Overall results While this project was cancelled before it was able to launch, there are plans to mimic this project in another environment that would support student engagement in the construction of on-premise HPC hardware.