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XSEDE Announces New Campus Bridging Services and Tools

 

XSEDE is releasing a set of software that enables researchers and campus-based IT managers to build a “basic XSEDE-compatible computing cluster” from scratch, conveniently. This capability is provided by a bundle of software called a “ROCKS Roll.” ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org/) is a tool that automates the process of building a cluster from a pre-defined set of software. XSEDE has assembled a set of open source software that, when assembled into a computing cluster, is compatible with the tools and capabilities of a supercomputer available through XSEDE. This XSEDE-compatible cluster software set also includes tools to make it easier for researchers to move data from campus storage systems to XSEDE for analysis on XSEDE supercomputers A video about the XSEDE Campus Bridging cluster software project is online at http://youtu.be/E96mlWruATM. For more technical information on the XSEDE-compatible cluster ROCKS Roll, go to https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/knowledge-base/-/kb/document/bdpe. To aid researchers in integrating campus and XSEDE resources, XSEDE now has telephone and email consulting on campus bridging. For further inquiries, call 812-318-2872 9 am to 5 pm eastern time, or send email to campusbridging@xsede.org

 
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