Glossary
This page includes a number of terms that we use in our documentation.
- CrashPlan
CrashPlan is a secure, data backup service for UCI Researchers. Install CrashPlan on your laptop/desktop to continuously protect your most important data when and where it is being created without impacting your workflow. Please see https://www.oit.uci.edu/services/research/crashplan/ for details.
- CRSP
CRSP is a network-based multi-Petabyte storage cluster for the UCI campus research community. It is being put in place so that researchers across UCI have a reliable and resilient location to store their research data and share with defined groups.
- DFS
BeeGFS is a network-based multi-Petabyte storage cluster for the UCI campus research community. It is being put in place so that researchers across UCI have a reliable and resilient location to store their research data and share with defined groups.
- Environment Modules
Please see environment modules documentation portal.
- GPFS
General Parallel File System, a high performance clustered file system from IBM with a brand name IBM Spectrum Scale.
- HPC
High Performance Computing
- HPC3
Is a scalable cluster-based computing infrastructure provided by RCIC. It is one of UCI’s shared-computing cluster that expands upon the condo-style model of GreenPlanet and the now-retired HPC clusters
- HTC
HIgh Throughput Computing
- motd
Message of the day. See
man motdfor a definition. We use this facility to show important messages to all users who login on the clsuter.- Reallocation
Allocation of CPU or GPU core-hours for a particular group.
- RCIC
The Research Cyberinfrastructure Center (RCIC) at the University of California, Irvine
- RCIC website
- RFP
A formal Request For Proposal process.
- RPM
The RPM Package Manager (also known as RPM) is a powerful package management system.
- SSH
Secure Shell PRotocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
- Slurm
Slurm is an open-source workload manager, please see the official documentation https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm.html
- SUs
Service Units are core-hours. Most users only work with CPU cores. All allocations are Service Units with cores being charged:
1 SU/core-hour for CPU
32 SUs/core-hour for GPU
- UNIX
Is a multi-user operating system which allows more than one person to use the computer resources at a time. See definition of UNIX