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Institutional Computing Resources
Grant project support may leverage the research computing capacity of Tufts University to provide a dedicated computing cluster and access to Tufts research storage area network (SAN).
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In addition to the research cluster, this resource is supported by Tufts research networked storage infrastructure. Currently, Tufts University offers a total of 400+ TB of storage capacity on a Network Appliance(NetApp) SAN to help researchers safely store their data. These storage appliances are backed up on a daily basis with up to 1 year of back-ups kept off site at any moment. Requests for storage will be provisioned for free to up to 500GB. Above 500GB, storage will be provisioned at a fixed recovery rate, and financial details will be finalized at time of award. Provisioned research storage space will also be available for mounting on the Tufts research cluster to leverage the computing power of the latter for data analysis. Details regarding the Tufts research cluster and associated research storage can be found at http://go.tufts.edu/cluster Storage consists of a dedicated 600TB parallel file system (GPFS) along with 600TB of object storage (DDN WOS) for archival purposes. Dedicated login, management, file transfer, compute, storage and virtualization nodes are available on the cluster, all connected via a dedicated network infrastructure. Users access the system locally and remotely thru ssh clients as well as a number of scientific gateways and portals, enabling not only access for experienced users but emerging interest across all domains. The system was also one of the first to support singularity, the emerging container standard for high performance computing which has proven popular among users of machine and deep learning software stacks. Web based access is provide via the OnDemand (OOD) web portal software which Tufts has been a participant in porting, testing and deploying along with other HPC centers.
Network Security in relation to Research Cluster, Storage Services
Tufts University maintains a distributed information technology environment, with central as well as local aspects of overall planning and control. Tufts' information security program is structured in a similar manner. Operationally, Tufts central IT organization (TTS) and each local IT group maintain standards of quality and professionalism regarding operational processes and procedures that enable effective operational security. For TTS managed systems, the emphasis is on centralized resources such as administration and finance, telecommunications, research computing and networking, systems and operations as well as directory, email, LDAP, calendaring, storage and Windows domain services. TTS also provides data center services and backups for all of these systems. Additionally, a large number of management systems (for patching), anti-virus and firewall services are centrally provided and/or managed by TTS. Within TTS, processes and procedures exist for managed infrastructure changes, as change control is required for all critical central systems. Tufts University provides anti-virus software for computers owned by the University, and makes anti-virus software available at no charge for users who employ personally owned computers in the course of their duties at the University.
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All devices and users are subject to the Tufts Acceptable Use policy found on TTS website:
How to reference the computing and storage resources for grant purposes.
Please reference this resource as: Tufts High-performance Computing Research Cluster