Research Resource Discovery

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Active Data Service (ADS)

Campus hosted storage for data in active use.

Active Data Storage (ADS) provides projects with reliable mid-scale storage at an affordable cost.  Use models include: online backups, storage for the hosting of large data sets, operational data storage and scratch space for analysis, mid-term data storage for archival needs and more. The ADS offers scalable storage from a few terabytes to over a petabyte of storage exported as a private file system for each project available through multiple protocols with good transfer rates. The storage provides high-availability and high-reliability through the use of standard RAID technologies and the use of hardware providing redundant paths to tolerate the loss of a controller or entire server.

Active Data Storage (ADS) is a partnership between the RDSNCSA, and Tech Services. Projects can rely on the ADS to meet mid-scale storage needs such as online backups, hosting of large datasets, operational data storage and scratch space for analysis, mid-term data archiving, and more. The ADS offers scalable storage from a few terabytes to over a petabyte of storage exported as a private file system for each project available through multiple protocols with good transfer rates. The storage provides high-availability and high-reliability through the use of standard RAID technologies and hardware that provides redundant paths to tolerate the loss of a controller or entire server.

For more details about the ADS, view the ADS Service Level Definition.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Backup And Storage

Blue Waters

Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and is the fastest supercomputer on a university campus. Scientists and engineers across the country use the computing and data power of Blue Waters to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from predicting the behavior of complex biological systems to simulating the evolution of the cosmos

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Research Computing

CI-Know (Environmental Cyber Infrastructure Demonstrator)

The CI-KNOW system mines the knowledge network associated with research communities' use of cyberinfrastructure tools, using provenance information and relational metadata from a metadata store through Tupelo 2 to create context-specific recommendations for CyberCollaboratory users. A network navigation portlet allows users to locate colleagues, documents, data or analytic tools in the knowledge network visually and to explore their networks. An internal auditing portal offers administrators diagnostics for assessing the growth and health of the entire knowledge network.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Data

Clowder

A scalable research data management system you can install in your own cloud. Clowder is a research data management system designed to support any data format and multiple research domains. The core software has been in development for the past five years with funding from a variety of sources. Clowder is open source software and we are always looking for collaborators and contributions. You can try the demo site or start installing the software on your resources. If you have any questions please email us or join us on HipChat.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

CyberCollaboratory

The NCSA CyberCollaboratory is a portal environment which contains services for users engaged in environmental engineering and hydrological sciences. Built on the open source Liferay portal, the CyberCollaboratory contains customized JSR-168 compliant portlets to call workflow and modeling services, data management tools, collaboration tools, document repositories, recommender systems, and other capabilities.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Research Computing

Cyberdashboard

The CyberDashboard is a stand-alone Java application that accompanies and communicates with the CyberCollaboratory portal through a publish/subscribe messaging service using the event broker. Users download the CyberDashboard to their desktop and subscribe to portal monitoring services. Information regarding workflows, user activities, and other activities in the portal is passed to/from the CyberDashboard through the event manager.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

Cyberinfrastructure Tutor (CI-Tutor)

CI-Tutor offers self-paced online tutorials on high-end computing topics such as parallel computing, multi-core performance, and performance tools. Its goal is to enable the high end computing community to effectively use cyberinfrastructure resources.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Consulting And Support

Cyberintegrator

Cyberintegrator is a user friendly editor to several middleware software components that (1) enable users to easily include tools and data sets into a software/data unifying environment, (2) annotate data, tools and workflows with metadata, (3) visualize data and metadata, (4) share data and tools using local and remote context repository, (5) execute step-by-step workflows during scientific explorations, and (6) gather provenance information about tool executions and data creations.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

ECID

The ECID cyber environment currently integrates five major components –  a collaborative portal, workflow engine, event manager, metadata repository, and social networking capabilities –  that have novel features inspired by the Cyberenvironment concept and by real-world environmental research scenarios.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

EDISON-CFD

A web application for the education of Computational Fluid Dynamics developed by NCSA and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) using Cyberintegrator workflows and PAW.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

Environmental system dashboard

The dashboard interface is a data overview of the environmental system. The dashboard allows for viewing of either the extreme (min / max) sampled values or all the sampled values for a chosen location. Additionally, these sampled values can be shown in either the real-time view, which focuses on conveying real-time data at the expense of historical context, or in the historical view, which provides a much more informative historical context at the expense of limited real-time display. For more information about the dashboard interface, refer to the new user help link.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Data

Event Manager and Event Driven Architecture

The ECID Event Manager uses a publish-subscribe service powered by JMS (Java Messaging Service) with semantics-enhanced messages that use RDF (Resource Description Framework) triples to allow the exchange of contextual information about the eve

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

Geospatial Image To Learn (GeoLearn)

The motivation for developing Geospatial Image To Learn (GeoLearn) comes from hydroclimatology and terrestrial hydrology. The research and development in this area addresses the scientific questions about causes and consequences of hydrologic variables through phenomenology, modeling, and synthesis.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Programming

Globus

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:

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.

 

 

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Research Computing

Image To Learn (Im2Learn)

In general, the driver for the Im2Learn suite of tools is to address the gap between complex multi-instrument raw data and knowledge relevant to any specific application. The objective of the Im2Learn suite of tools is to research and develop solutions to real life problems in the application areas of: machine vision, precision farming, land use and land cover classification, map analysis, geo-spatial information systems (GIS), synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target and multi-spectral scene modeling, video surveillance, bio-informatics, microscopy and medical image processing, and advanced sensor environments. The main goal of the Im2Learn research and development is to automate information processing of repetitive, laborious and tedious analysis tasks and build user-friendly decision-making systems that operate in automated or semi-automated mode in a variety of applications. The development is based on theoretical foundations of image and video processing, computer vision, data fusion, statistical and spectral modeling

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

List of IT Services NCSA

IT Services (ITS) is the small and mid-sized computing arm of NCSA. As a team we support and operate everything from laptops to mid-sized cloud and storage options for NCSA and its affiliates. Our goals are to make new services and tools available to NCSA and it's partners in a way that makes them easy to use and operate. We help NCSA projects succeed in an ever changing computing environment. That is done by bringing in new tools and services, and extending the existing services to provide better options. We have a combined 150 years in developing tools and methods to support IT needs and innovative services. Today that means we run Virtual Machine interfaces from production VMWare to Open Stack for development, and we build solutions that are meant to help make your project work better.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Consulting And Support

Multiple open source software by NCSA

We would like to thank Atlassian, Sontatype, IntelliJ and YourKit for the tools provided and their commitment to Open Source software. We would like to thank ISDA and NCSA for providing the hardware to host this service as well as the man hours to maintain it.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

NCSA

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications provides powerful computers and expert support that help scientists and engineers improve our world.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Consulting And Support

PerfSuite

PerfSuite is a collection of tools, utilities, and libraries for software performance analysis where the primary design goals are ease of use, comprehensibility, interoperability, and simplicity. This software can provide a good "entry point" for more detailed performance analysis and can help point the way towards selecting other tools and/or techniques using more specialized software if necessary (for example, tools/libraries from academic research groups or third-party commercial software).

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

Projects and software -Cybersecurity and Networking Division (CSND)-ncsa

The CyberSecurity & Networking Division at NCSA is composed of researchers, developers, and specialists who work to advance the state of the art of cybersecurity and networking, apply those advances to key science and engineering user communities, and provide for the high-performance and security of NCSA's networks and substantial computing resources.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

Research Storage as a Service (RSaaS)

Illinois researchers can gain access to the ICCP storage system either by investing in 6 TB storage disks that each have a 5-year lifespan or by renting storage space by the terabyte/month (TB/month) through the Research Storage as a Service (RSaaS). Researchers with shorter duration or more sporadic storage needs may prefer the RSaaS option.

Buy Storage

The Campus Cluster file system provides projects with a high performance storage space that is attached to a large compute service and the high-speed CARNE network.  Use models include operational data storage and scratch space for analysis, mid-term storage for research data, a central storage space for compute and data sharing workflows for cross-campus collaboration, and more.  Learn more about the ICCP storage environment.

Researches can gain access to the ICCP storage system either by investing in storage disks (each disk contains 6TB of storage space) or renting storage space by the terabyte/month (TB/month) through the Research Storage as a Service (RSaaS).

Invest in Storage Disks

An Investor or Investor Group can purchase 6 TB disks that each have a 5-year lifespan. This option is best for those with ongoing storage needs.

Cost for one 6 TB disk: $830.53
Fee to cover fair share portion of shared infrastructure costs: $600/disk

Total per disk: $1,430.53

Rent Storage Space through Research Storage as a Service (RSaaS)

This option is especially beneficial for projects with short to moderate duration or sporadic needs.

Cost: $4.67 per terabyte per month (chargeable to grants and exempt from F&A)

The general rules for RSaaS billing are:

  1. Usage will be billed monthly to the University of Illinois CFOP you provide, and charges can be viewed on your Technology Services Statement via the Pinnacle application. Customers agree to keep on file with ICCP a current CFOP with sufficient funds to cover the charges.
  2. We will allocate the full amount you request to your project, so you will be charged monthly for the full amount requested whether you fill the space or not.

NOTE: All ICCP customers will be required to sign the Service Level Definition for the product or service they purchase.  These SLDs outline policies related to these purchases.  Find the appropriate SLD for the product or service you’re considering here.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Backup And Storage

SEAD

Welcome to SEAD 2.0! SEAD provides secure, hosted Project Spaces where teams of researchers can manage, share, and collaborate around data, and, when they're ready, effortlessly publish and preserve data in long-term repositories. By making it easier for researchers to organize and annotate data over time, SEAD simplifies data publication, helping repositories to get better curated data and metadata.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Data

The Bro Network Security Monitor

Bro is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. NCSA and the International Computer Science Institute co-develop the Bro NSM. Bro provides a comprehensive platform for network traffic analysis, with a particular focus on semantic security monitoring at scale.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Software

tupelo

Information about user interactions with Cyberenvironment components is captured and used to provide project documentation and to support coordination, alerts, subscriptions, and knowledge network recommendations.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Type: Data



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