USC Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) Activities
2015- 4th Quarter
Phil Moore, Director of Research Cyberinfrastructure, phil@sc.edu
http://www.sc.edu/rci
Outreach/Engagement/Service
RCI purchased and configured Galaxy Bioinformatics server for pharmacy, biology and computer
science and engineering research faculty and students.
RCI (Moore) co-PI in Department of Energy SBIR Advanced Digital Network Technologies and
Middleware services grant proposal.
Moore completed Research Computing section of Educause survey for USC.
RCI held a research seminar meeting with CSE students interested in HPC and research
applications.
RCI group met with Dean of College of Engineering and Computing to discuss HPC, software
licensing and research computing support.
RCI developed and evaluated backup script for using Google data storage.
Conferences and Workshops
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Supercomputing Conference - Austin (Moore, Sagona, Torkian, Elger)
Research Faculty Engagement
A current list of HPC users and applications is available from Dr. Phil Moore (phil@sc.edu)
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Zhang, Sagona, Elger)
R statistical packages on HPC cluster
Anthropology and Archeology (White, Sagona, Elger)
Repast application on HPC cluster
Mathematics (Sun, Laughlin, Sagona, Elger)
Numerical simulations on HPC
Biology (Hughes, Nelson, Sagona, Elger)
Gene sequence alignment HPC applications
Biology (Wethey, Moore, Elger)
ROMS-AGRIF regional ocean modeling HPC simulation
Statistics (Cai, Sagona, Moore)
Statistical HPC R application
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School of Medicine (Nagarkatti, Chitrala, Sagona, Elger)
HPC bioinformatics application
Computer Science and Engineering (Tang, Zhang, Sagona)
HPC CUDA GPU simulations
Biology (Ely, Diaz, Sagona)
Bioinformatics toolkit for visualization
McNair Aerospace(Van Tooren, Boozer, Sagona, Elger)
Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations on RCI HPC cluster
Biology (Davis, Elger)
Sequence Analysis on RCI Galaxy server
Psychology (Hanayik, Sagona, Elger)
Brain imaging analysis on RCI HPC cluster
Baruch Institute (Morris, Moore, Torkian)
Programming assistance to generate sound derived from nutrient simulation
English (Gavin, Elger)
Matrix calculations using R on HPC cluster
Nanocenter (Blom, Sagona, Elger)
Parallel NMR calculations on HPC cluster
Chemical Engineering (Stanford, Sagona)
HPC Gaussian software license request
Mechanical Engineering (Khan, Anumbe, Sagona)
ANSYS HPC license request
Biology (Bo, Wang, Elger)
Structural simulations (R, MASS and Splines) on HPC
Nuclear Engineering (Noordhoek, Sagona, Elger)
VASP simulations on HPC cluster
Computer Science and Engineering (Bakos, Chakrabarti, Sagona, Elger)
GPU simulations on cluster
School of Business (Becerril, Elger)
Statistical R simulations
Pharmacy (Buckhaults, Sagona, Elger, Torkian, Moore)
Discussed Galaxy server and high speed connection to access genomics data at UCSB
McCausland Brain Imaging Center (Rorden, Moore)
Updated data server software for fMRI system
Mechanical (Nuclear) Engineering (Scopatz, Sagona)
Assisted in relocation of cluster to be used to introduce students to HPC systems
Computer Science and Engineering (Bakos, Bradshaw, Sagona, Elger)
RCI large memory server allocated for bioinformatics sequence analysi
School of Business (Cragun, Moore, Torkian)
Gaming simulation software development for marketing department
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McNair Center (Van Tooren, Boozer, Sagona)
CFD HPC application on RCI cluster
Psychology Department (Desai, van Dam)
Brain imaging (AFNI) applications
Civil and Environmental Engineering (Imran, Ismail, Sagona, Elger)
Modeling software (OpenFOAM) on HPC
Vendor Meetings
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Spectra Logic Storage (Sagona, Elger)
Data storage pricing information
Bright Computing (Sagona, Elger)
HPC job scheduling software information
Seagate Storage (Sagona, Elger)
Data storage issues and information
IBM (Moore, Farnham)
Overview of IBM cloud storage solutions