1. Datacenters and University Computing Jim Pepin

2. Why  Power/space/AC issues Cost of facilities build-outs Practicality in existing buildings  Complexity of management  Security drivers  Backups  Mandates  Others?

3. Why Now  Universities are recognizing leverage a common data centers bring  Cross-discipline trends Include support people in process  More complex environments Grids/VOs Collaborative spaces Large scale HPC Departmental/federated Services

4. Why Now  Recognition that each research/academic units can’t create complex physical spaces economically  HPC is leading this trend Departmental services also drive locally  Cyber-infrastructure ‘models’ from NSF push campuses.  Mixture of Condo and Colo. Local culture issues drive solutions

5. USC Governance  USC HPCC has governance model from based on user community of large scale resource (condo)  Faculty advisory group  Allocation committee Large Disk/cpu Favors larger scale problems. Favors interdisciplinary proposals 5 users over 500k hrs Routinely setup 512 node runs 256 are standard queue  Technology Forum Determines central versus federated

6. What It Does  Provide common facilities and services for a large cross section of the university that requires leading edge computational and networking resources.  Leverage USC central resources with externally funded projects.  Campus ITS support for base facilities  Not just usual suspects play  New organization is evolving at core of USC  Condo versus Colo Condo central support  Standard environment Colo locally funded centrally located  Locally determined

7. Why a new place  Old Data center/new Slide show  4th floor (40kish sq feet raw)  Seven raised floor rooms built Admin computing center  Print/sort rooms ~2x2.5k  Computer room ~5k ITS  Main room ~5k  Colo ~4k  HPCC ~4k  Empty HPCC ~4k (not built out) Support room (UPS farm) ~3k MPOE (fiber/switches etc) ~1k  3rd floor office space (70kish sq feet)