XSEDE Campus Bridging Pilot Case Study

Hallock, Barbara; Knepper, Richard; Ferguson, James; Stewart, Craig A.

doi:10.1145/2616498.2616570

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“…In order to increase the compatibility of software between campus resources and XSEDE, the XSEDE Campus Bridging program created the "XSEDE-compatible Basic Cluster" software stack (XCBC). This consists of a definition of a suite of software that represents an open-source subset of the software and tools one can expect to find on any XSEDE cluster, mechanisms for installing that software [6], and tools for installing that software [7,8,9,10].…”

Section: Xsede-compatible Basic Cluster (Xcbc) and Documentation Portabmentioning

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Leveraging Your Local Resources and National Cyberinfrastructure Resources without Tears

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et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services

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Compute resources for conducting research inhabit a wide range, including researchers' personal computers, servers in labs, campus clusters and condos, regional resource-sharing models, and national cyberinfrastructure. Researchers agree that there are not enough resources available on a broad scale, and significant barriers exist for getting analyses moved from smaller-to largerscale cyberinfrastructure. The XSEDE Campus Bridging program disseminates several tools that assist researchers and campus IT administrators in reducing barriers to the effective use of national cyberinfrastructure for research. Tools for data management, job submission and steering, best practices for building and administering clusters, and common documentation and training activities all support a flexible environment that allows cyberinfrastructure to be as simple to utilize as a plug-and-play peripheral. In this paper and the accompanying poster we provide an overview of campus bridging, including specific challenges and solutions to the problem of making the computerized parts of research easier. We focus particularly on tools that facilitate management of campus computing clusters and integration of such clusters with the national cyberinfrastructure.

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Section: Xsede-compatible Basic Cluster (Xcbc) and Documentation Portabmentioning

confidence: 99%