Research Resource Discovery

Description from Amazon: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality. It is effectively a datacenter in the cloud. Campus has a contract to allow use of AWS on campus accounts and with a discount.

CAEML's vision is to enable fast, accurate design and verification of microelectronic circuits and systems by creating machine learning algorithms to derive models used for electronic design automation. The center aims to speed up the design and verification of microelectronic circuits and systems, reducing development cost and time-to-market for manufacturers of microelectronic products, especially integrated circuits.

The Cloud Dashboard is a one-stop enrollment portal for cloud-based applications managed by Technology Services such as Google Apps @ Illinois and U of I Box.

Exchange is a collection of collaborative applications used by faculty, staff and graduate students for email, calendaring, task lists, and voicemail.

Research Data Management Simplified.

Globus Online is a hosted service that automates the tasks associated with moving files between sites.  Users queue file transfers which are then done asynchronously in the background. 

Globus Online transfers files between "endpoints" which are systems that are registered with the G.O. service. Globus Online manages the data transfer operation for the user: monitoring performance, retrying failures, auto-tuning and recovering from faults automatically where possible, and reporting status. 

Existing Campus Endpoints with Globus:

• Blue Waters Data Transfer  https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/data-transfer-doc
• IGB Managed Endpoints https://help.igb.illinois.edu/Globus
• Campus Cluster https://campuscluster.illinois.edu/resources/docs/user-guide/#dt

Transfer your data

Globus provides a secure, unified interface to your research data. Use Globus to 'fire and forget' high-performance data transfers between systems within and across organizations.

Get unified access to your research data, across all systems, using any existing identity.  

Laptop? HPC cluster? Cloud storage? Tape archive? Access them all using just a web browser.  Data stored at a different institution? At a supercomputing facility? All you need is your campus login.

Share your data

Globus lets you share data on your storage systems with collaborators at other institutions. You specify what data. You specify which colleagues. Globus manages access simply and securely, so you can focus on your research.

As an NVIDIA Center of Excellence, Illinois is recognized as a primary collaborator with NVIDIA, and has received research funding and equipment to expand that working relationship. Recent NVIDIA support has included 32 QuadroPlex Model 4 systems, each outfitted with 64 graphics processing units (GPUs). These systems have been incorporated into a 16-node CUDA cluster, which is managed by NCSA as a key component of Illinois's parallel computing facilities.

Engineering IT provides professional system administration services for individual clusters and other high performance computing systems.

High-performance computers have become essential to research in many disciplines across the Illinois campus. The Illinois Campus Cluster provides access to computing and data storage resources and frees you from the hassle of administering your own compute cluster. Any individual, research team, or campus unit can invest in compute nodes or storage disks or pay a fee for on-demand use of compute cycles or storage space. Staffing and shared infrastructure fees are partially subsidized by campus to help keep your costs as low as possible!

IACAT's Center for Extreme Scale Computing is leading the way with projects focused on parallel programming for petascale applications, multi-core and many-core technologies for scientific computing, and multiscale simulation in science and engineering. These projects combine Illinois' expertise in computer science and engineering and applied mathematics with that of computational scientists and engineers seeking to use petascale computers to advance science and engineering.