Introduction

The Research Cyberinfrastructure Center RCIC at the University of California, Irvine deploys and supports resources for the UCI research community is the focal point of contact for providing High Performance Computing clusters and Scalable Storage Systems. These include:

Computing Cluster

Overview is a scalable cluster-based computing infrastructure, UCI’s next generation of shared computing supporting both a condo and pay-per-cycle model. UCI has purchased both CPU and GPU nodes hardware as part of HPC3. Annual funds are used to add to this resource enabling RCIC to provide no-cost allocations to a larger fraction of the UCI research community.

HPC3 includes a rich collection of domain-specific Environment modules software packages.

Storage Systems

These storage Systems are used for storing and analyzing research data:

  • CRSP - Campus Research Storage Pool. Highly-reliable, encrypted-at-rest, scalable data storage system available across the UCI campus network.

    CRSP is funded through central campus to guarantee a fixed amount of no-cost storage to any faculty member or staff researcher who requests space. These campus funds pay for the people, the baseline infrastructure, and vendor maintenance required to provide the robust infrastructure.

  • DFS - Cluster Parallel File Storage System is high-quality/high-performance data storage directly attached to HPC3.

On-boarding to specialized compliant resources

Specialized resources are used for data that can not be appropriately stored/analyzed on RCIC resources:

  • Sherlock is SDSC’s DOD-compliant, HIPAA-Compliant secure computing and storage enclave.

  • Secure Research Environment (SRE) is OIT’s service that provides a secure, on-campus virtual server infrastructure for the UCI campus research community.

Our team provides hardware and software support to the campus research community.

The Allocations explains the access to the computing and storage resources.

Access

Grant Support

Please see the HPC3 Description that can be used in grant applications.

How to Acknowledge RCIC

Papers, presentations, and other publications featuring work that relied on RCIC resources, services or expertise should include the following acknowledgement text:

Acknowledgement

This work utilized the infrastructure for high-performance and high-throughput computing, research data storage and analysis, and scientific software tool integration built, operated, and updated by the Research Cyberinfrastructure Center (RCIC) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The RCIC provides cluster-based systems, application software, and scalable storage to directly support the UCI research community. https://rcic.uci.edu