Reports
Draft Report to NSF on Pacific Research Platform Application Usage – 12/10/2020 – Report
The PRP team is able to track the computing (CPU and GPU) usage of each of the 400+ namespaces in PRP’s Nautilus Kubernetes hypercluster, which connects nearly 30 campuses and national laboratories. The PRP Nautilus distributed cyberinfrastructure hosts over 7000 CPU-cores and over 500 32-bit GPUs.
Presentations
Internet2 Research Engagement Session – John Graham and Dmitry Mishin – 8-25-2020 – Presentation
The PRP/NRP/GRP now represents a partnership among more than 50 institutions. Most host Flash I/O Network Appliances (FIONAs), which are rack-mounted PCs. FIONAs are advanced Science DMZ Data Transfer Nodes, optimized for 10-100Gbps data transfer and sharing. Many sport two to eight GPU add-in boards. 165 of these 10-100G connected Read more…
Media
Larry Smarr: The Future of Distributed Computing Is Here – datanami
Datanami recently caught up with Smarr to get his take on how new technologies like Kubernetes and 5G are changing the distributed computing game.
Presentations
UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 014 – Larry Smarr – 5-26-2021 – Presentation
Larry is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. He’ll be speaking about the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), and the Nautilus Project.
Media
UC San Diego Researchers Optimize Microbiome Tool for Computer GPUs – UCSD News
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have been applying their high-performance computing expertise by porting the popular UniFrac microbiome tool to graphic processing units (GPUs) in a bid to increase the acceleration and accuracy of scientific discovery, including urgently needed COVID-19 research.
Presentations
Advanced Global-Scale Networking Supporting Data-Intensive Artificial Intelligence Applications – Larry Smarr – 1-30-2020 – Presentation
Joint Networks Summit – San Diego State University January 30, 2020
Presentations
Security Challenges and the Pacific Research Platform – Larry Smarr – 12-5-2019 – Presentation
Cybersecurity Engagement in a Research Environment Workshop
Rady School of Management, UC San Diego December 5, 2019
Presentations
The Pacific Research Platform Enables Distributed Big-Data Machine-Learning – 10-15-2019 – Presentation
Keynote: Big Data & Extreme-Scale Computing2 (BDEC2)
San Diego, CA October 15, 2019
Events
3NRP Workshop 9/24/2019 – Minneapolis, MN – Event
The Third National Research Platform Workshop – September 24-25, 2019 Agenda Thank you for attending the Third National Resarch Platform Workshop in Minneapolis, Minn. Please see presentations from the Sept. 24-25 event below. Tuesday, September 24 Time Session | Location: All Tuesday sessions are in the Southern Pacific Room Read more…