This is the CRBS Data Storage and Application Hosting technical information website.

For additional information, or to get a quote for services, please contact Vicky Rowley at vrowley_at_ucsd_dot_edu or 858-822-0708

In March 2011, the CRBS began offering IT support services, via recharge, that include:

• DATA STORAGE
  • Single-copy Storage
    • suitable for backing up primary data stored elsewhere on campus
    • suitable for backing up workstations and laptops
    • minimal access - update backups, recover lost data
    • includes technical support related to data storage
  • Replicated Storage
    • provides primary data storage
    • includes 2nd copy backup snapshots stored at an alternate on-campus location
    • data is accessible to applications and/or computers via NFS or Samba
    • includes technical support related to data storage and data access issues

• VIRTUAL MACHINE HOSTING
  • Cost based on memory, CPU and data storage requirements
  • You manage your VM, or use our infrastructure for repeatable, scalable VM deployment

• TECHNICAL SUPPORT and CONSULTING SERVICES
  • Virtualization
    • migration of applications to a virtualized compute environment
    • equipment specification for hosting VMs in your own environment
  • Network design, implementation and troubleshooting
  • Large data storage (100+ terabytes)
    • Solaris ZFS or CentOS ZFS
    • Implementation, configuration and performance issues
    • Hardware specification
  • 3rd party software integration
    • data capture (Zeiss, Gatan, etc)
    • data analysis (Matlab, Amira, iMOD, etc.)
    • website applications (Apache, Tomcat, Hubzero, etc.)
  • Automation
    
    • Scalable, repeatable, secure server provisioning via CentOS, cobbler and puppet
    • Scripting (bash, perl, etc.)
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
    • hardware specification
    • implementation, configuration (ROCKS, Puppet, SGE, etc.)
    • NOT parallelization of existing code

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