Datacenters andUniversityComputingJim Pepin

Why

Power/space/AC issues Cost of facilities build-outs Practicality in existing buildings

Complexity of management Security drivers Backups Mandates Others?

Why Now

Universities are recognizing leverage a common data centers bring

Cross-discipline trends Include support people in process

More complex environments Grids/VOs Collaborative spaces Large scale HPC Departmental/federated Services

Why Now

Recognition that each research/academic units can’t create complex physical spaces economically

HPC is leading this trend Departmental services also drive locally

Cyber-infrastructure ‘models’ from NSF push campuses.

Mixture of Condo and Colo. Local culture issues drive solutions

USC Governance USC HPCC has governance model from based on user community of large scale resource (condo)

Faculty advisory group Allocation committee

Large Disk/cpu Favors larger scale problems. Favors interdisciplinary proposals 5 users over 500k hrs Routinely setup 512 node runs 256 are standard queue

Technology Forum Determines central versus federated

What It Does Provide common facilities and services for a

large cross section of the university that requires leading edge computational and networking resources.

Leverage USC central resources with externally funded projects.

Campus ITS support for base facilities Not just usual suspects play New organization is evolving at core of USC Condo versus Colo

Condo central support Standard environment

Colo locally funded centrally located Locally determined

Why a new place Old Data center/new Slide show 4th floor (40kish sq feet raw) Seven raised floor rooms built

Admin computing center Print/sort rooms ~2x2.5k Computer room ~5k

ITS Main room ~5k Colo ~4k HPCC ~4k Empty HPCC ~4k (not built out)

Support room (UPS farm) ~3k MPOE (fiber/switches etc) ~1k

3rd floor office space (70kish sq feet)