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.

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 motd for a definition. We use this facility to show important messages to all users who login on the clsuter.

RCIC

The Research Cyberinfrastructure Center (RCIC) at the University of California, Irvine

RCIC website

https://rcic.uci.edu

RFP

A formal Request For Proposal process.

RPM

The RPM Package Manager (also known as RPM) is a powerful package: management system. See RPM.

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. All allocations are service units with cores being charged:

1 SU/core-hour for CPU (most users only work with CPU cores).
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