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Introductions

2019 April Research IT Club

RLP Intro

RLP Overview

Workstream 1: e-Research Infrastructure

• Compute and storage — on-site and Cloud;
• people!

Workstream 2: Research Data Lifecycle/Management

• Research data storage and archive;
• publication and respositories.

Workstream 3: Research Administration

• Grant development, funding management. . .
• Processes, tools, systems, teams. . .

Headline News!

First Major RLP Delivery!

In Production: RLP 'Z'

• Almost one million pounds of University money!
• 4096-core HPC Pool;
• reserved for true-HPC work: ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/csf3/hpc-pool
• FATPOU for now! (Sustainable financial model to come. . .)

N8 CIR

N8 Computationally Intensive Research

• Born out of N8-HPC
• Contract finally signed!
• Less focused on HPC — more on "everything"
• Two current themes: Digital Health, Digital Humanities.

cloudAWS

What are we up to with Cloud?

AWS via Research IT (RLP 'O')

• RIT AWS Organisations;
• aggregated procurements and discounts; enables RIT tech support; direct charges to grant accounts; security. . .

Free Stuff (For Now)

• Credits from AWS + RLP Funds
• Developing AWS-based services for you — early adopters?

Phase One M and K

What else are we buying?

1. 16 * Nvidia V100 GPUs, 182k.
2. 3 * 1.5 TB RAM compute nodes, 72k.
3. 10 * STD compute nodes (320 cores), 72k.
4. Cloud (AWS) resources, 84k.
   • e.g. for Shiny, Jupyter. . .

• Soon: 52 Nvidia V100 GPUs available
  • 12 FATPOU; remainder priority to contributors.

Phase Two M and K

Your input required!

• Another 360k expected available from August. . .
• One workshop remaining:
  • Sackville Street Building D35
  • Tue 09 Apr 2019
  • 11:30 – 13:00
• What should we buy?

Two Year Post

Two-year G7 post in my team

• Help manage research platforms/people central/on campus
• Develop and support project-specific infrastructure, central platforms
• Decent chance of extension (no guarantees).