The Oklahoma cyberinfrastructure initiative

Neeman, Henry; Gray, Zane; Brunson, Dana; Huebsch, Eddie; Horton, David; Deaton, J. W.; Gentis, Debi

doi:10.1145/2484762.2484793

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“…These institutions form the service provider core of the OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OneOCII) [25], an informal but extremely active collaboration that to date has served over 100 institutions and organizations in Oklahoma, including over 50 academic institutions, with a broad variety of technological capabilities as well as education, outreach, training and workforce development activities.…”

Section: Inter-campus Networkmentioning

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Large scale research data archiving: Training for an inconvenient technology

Calhoun

Akin

Zimmerman

et al. 2019

Journal of Computational Science

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a b s t r a c tAt small scales, storage is straightforward to afford and to use, but at large scales -from several Terabytes (TB) to many Petabytes (PB) and soon Exabytes (EB) -tradeoffs must be made between cost and convenience, and training for use of such resources needs to take such inconveniences into account. A large scale, long term (over 10 year) institutional research data storage archive is described, focusing on both hardware and software. The technology choices give rise to inconveniences, which in turn not only lead to a crucial requirement for training on the proper use of the archive, but also inform the specifics of that training, as does each individual use case.

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Section: Inter-campus Networkmentioning

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Large scale research data archiving: Training for an inconvenient technology

Calhoun

Akin

Zimmerman

et al. 2019

Journal of Computational Science

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“…The cost of software should be a modest fraction of total costs, even if this leads to a modest decrease in convenience for the researchers. Under the aegis of the OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OneOCII) [1], the PetaStore is to be provided to researchers statewide, not just at OU. Files stored on the PetaStore should have maximal longevity, for the benefit of research teams, by eliminating ongoing recurring costs and minimizing later incremental costs for retaining datasets over the long term.…”

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The Oklahoma PetaStore

Calhoun

Akin

Alexander

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

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In the era of Big Data, research productivity can be highly sensitive to the availability of large scale, long term archival storage. Unfortunately, many mass storage systems are prohibitively expensive at scales appropriate for individual institutions rather than for national centers. Furthermore, a key issue is the set of circumstances under which researchers can, and are willing to, adopt a centralized technology that, in a pure cost recovery model, might be, or might appear to be, more expensive than what the research teams could build on their own. This paper examines a business model that addresses these concerns in a comprehensive manner, distributing the costs among a funding agency, the institution and the research teams, thereby reducing the challenges faced by each.

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“…The parallel computing resources described in this article are made available under the aegis of the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OCII) [9]. Triggered by Oklahoma's 2008-13 National Science Foundation EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-1 grant, OCII began as a Memorandum of Understanding between OU and Oklahoma State University (OSU) to provide a broad variety of capabilities to researchers and educators statewide, on par with local users at the two institutions.…”

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Using a shared, remote cluster for teaching HPC

Carley

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McKinney

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)

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Production clusters are a common environment for programming assignments in courses involving High Performance Computing, but they can present challenges, especially in the context of use by courses at institutions remote from these resources. In the context of the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, the University of Oklahoma has been providing its centrally managed clusters for use by courses statewide. This paper explores mechanisms for using this shared, remote resource for teaching, and advocates in favor of such use.

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The Oklahoma cyberinfrastructure initiative

Cited by 6 publications

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Large scale research data archiving: Training for an inconvenient technology

Large scale research data archiving: Training for an inconvenient technology

The Oklahoma PetaStore

Using a shared, remote cluster for teaching HPC

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