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The OCF wants to hear from anyone who is interested in the
possibility of participating in a free high-performance computing
(HPC) service that we will be offering starting next academic
year. Our eventual goal is to make intensive computational
facilities student-run and freely avilable for all students and
researchers in the UC Berkeley community.
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Our current, tentative itinerary is to make an initial hardware
purchase by the end of the spring 2017 semester, then purchase
additional hardware in the fall based on input from interested
parties and feedback from a trial run in the summer or early
fall. Depending on the success of the service after it launches
for the entire campus, we will consider expanding it in future
years to accommodate even more projects of varying sizes and
needs. To that end, we have created a survey for those who might
like to see their project run on OCF hardware:
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<p><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/ZqC69uhQuUzj9LjK2">
OCF HPC interest form
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To anyone who may consider hosting a current or future project on
our open computer infrastructure, we urge you to fill out this
survey as best as you can, using estimations if you do not have
all the hard data. We want to see the full breadth of projects on
campus that have unmet computing needs. Our first server is
planned to feature multiple high-end graphics cards, a many-core
CPU, and spacious quantities of RAM and storage, but we will need
as much input as we can get to make informed decisions if we want
to make high-performance computing a reality for as many as
possible.
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To student groups in particular, we would like to select a few
candidates for our trial run on limited hardware. We will use our
experience on this outing to iron out wrinkles and anticipate
obstacles that may come up during a full run. If this sounds
interesting to you, please let us know in your response.
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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to
<a href="{% url 'doc' 'contact' %}">contact us</a>!
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