Set up meeting with Genome Center compute folk

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To discuss buy-in.

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From: Richard Feltstykket 
Subject: Re: Genome Center compute center

Hi Titus,

Welcome!  Genome center members (and their labs) have free access to the Genome
Center's clusters idle cycles.  Of course, you can also buy your own nodes and
have us run them at no charge.

We're currently in the middle of a new cluster purchase.  The compute nodes are
24 CPUs, 128GB of RAM, connected with gigabit ethernet.  They run around $3k
each.  If you're interested, let us know your needs (compute, storage, gpu,
etc), and we can build you a quote.  Many labs purchase their own login node,
one or more high memory nodes (512+GB RAM), and storage, in addition to whatever
compute resources they need.

The Genome Center has 10gbps connectivity with the research network and a
machine room (19 racks).  We also have another 8 racks in other machine rooms
around campus.

Let us know if you have any specific questions, and we can hopefully answer them
for you.

Thanks,
Richard

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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:02:30 -0800
From: "M. Casper Lewis"
Subject: Re: Genome Center compute center

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:38:14AM -0800, C. Titus Brown wrote:
> We're most interested in access to storage and medium size compute
> (24 CPUs/128 GB of RAM would fit perfectly, and $3k is a great price).
> What do you charge for "scratch" (unbacked up) space, and backed-up
> space?  I'd like something in the 10-100 TB range for the former,
> depending on price <gulp>.

Our storage building block is a 36 drive bay server, which we run as
1 to 3 sets of 12 drives in a triple partiy configuration.  That gives
us ~100T using 3 sets of the 4T drives.

The most recent one I bought was $9500 with 12 4T drives in it, giving
us 28T of usable space with room to add two more 28T RAID sets.

If you have a target for a particular price point or storage capacity,
let us know and we can work up an initial quote.

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July 29-July 31 range work? @mr-c @camillescott others?

[mr-c]

Yes, I'll be available

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:57 AM C. Titus Brown notifications@github.com wrote:

July 29-July 31 range work? @mr-c https://github.com/mr-c @camillescott https://github.com/camillescott others?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/dib-lab/dib-lab/issues/26#issuecomment-114897916.

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[camillescott]

I'll be in Michigan for my sister's wedding that week On Jun 24, 2015 8:37 AM, "Michael R. Crusoe" notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, I'll be available

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:57 AM C. Titus Brown notifications@github.com wrote:

July 29-July 31 range work? @mr-c https://github.com/mr-c @camillescott https://github.com/camillescott others?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/dib-lab/dib-lab/issues/26#issuecomment-114897916.

Michael R. Crusoe: Programmer & Bioinformatician crusoe@ucdavis.edu The lab for Data Intensive Biology; University of California, Davis https://impactstory.org/MichaelRCrusoe http://twitter.com/biocrusoe

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/dib-lab/dib-lab/issues/26#issuecomment-114913751.

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How about Aug 3-6 range (following Monday-Th)?

[mr-c]

Works for me.

[luizirber]

While we don't meet with them, can we request an account for access to the 'idle cycles'? Relevant link: http://cores.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/