The Advanced Computing Center (ACC) at OHSU is charged with meeting the advanced computing needs of the OHSU research, academic and administrative community and presently includes a Computing Center and a Scientific Visualization Laboratory (SVL). The ACC is a revenue based service center, partially subsidized by the University, and architected to provide a scalable set of advanced computing services that augment and supplement no-cost core services provided to the OHSU Enterprise by the Information Technology Group.
Core staffing for the Center is provided by three full-time Research System Engineers, two part-time System Analysts, and two part-time Database Analysts. The Center’s technology platform comprises a 94-processor computer resource with 116 GB of memory, 9 terabytes of online storage and 15 terabytes of near-line storage. The facility is housed in a 2000 square foot data center that provides redundant systems for power, air conditioning, security and ample room for growth. The center currently runs Solaris, Mac OS X, Irix, and Red Hat Linux but has been designed to accommodate any operating system required by the research community.
The Advanced Computing Center provides a tier of services that include consulting, research storage solutions, secure local and remote collaboration options, virtual server environments for Windows and Unix, equipment hosting for stand-alone research computing systems, application hosting and license management / compliance, co-location and support for research computing systems, secure and public web portals, and a large suite of open source applications running on a parallel compute cluster. The facility presently provides access to 90+ open-source research applications compiled for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms as well as a number of statistical and simulation packages.
The SVL provides high-end graphics workstations that enable users to visualize confocal images, MRI and 3D ultrasound data, large complex datasets, and conduct simulations dynamically in stereo 3-D using stereoscopic displays. User accounts and access to core functionality such as commonly used open source software are available at nominal cost, while more complex individual needs are accommodated through a modest fee structure.
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Last Updated: 9/11/2008
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