Media
Pacific Research Platform Video
Building on years of research in network engineering and data-intensive collaborative science, the Pacific Research Platform was born in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Events
PRP – Its Legacy and Promise – 6 Year Virtual Symposium – 6/22/21 – Event
Pacific Research Platform: Its Legacy and Promise – June 22, 2021 – Virtual Building on years of research in network engineering and data-intensive collaborative science, the Pacific Research Platform was born in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation. It aimed to knit together major university research networks Read more…
Presentations
CASPER Workshop 2021 – John Graham – 5-19-2021 – Presentation
The CASPER workshop is a annual workshop where FPGA, GPU, and general heterogeneous system programmers get together to discuss new instruments in radio astronomy, as well as the tools and libraries for developing and manipulating these instruments.
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