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CEES is a partnership between the School of Earth Sciences, the Computer Systems Laboratory and private industry. The center's integration of Earth science and computer science builds capacity in computational methods for the Earth and environmental sciences and enables new growth in areas where computational activities exist already. The three units of CEES - Research, HPTC, and Education - work together to fill the gap between applied mathematics and the Earth sciences. Combining a strong focus on scientific applications with state-of-the-art hardware and computational methods, CEES is pushing forward the frontiers of computational geoscience and engaging computer scientists and architects to design software and hardware better suited for Earth and environmental science problems.
Announcements:Upgrade in computer hardware and new charges
CEES is making significant upgrades in its computer hardware, and changes to policies and funding mechanisms. CEES now differentiate two groups of users:
(1) General users, who have minimal compute and storage requirements, will continue to have free access to upgraded CEES tool machines and shared disk resources; (2) Invested users who have higher compute and disk needs will have exclusive access to clusters and high-end servers. The second group will be responsible for sharing the cost of purchasing clusters and other high-end hardware.
General users can expect the following changes:
1) Home directory space will be doubled in size, but we will limit each user to more than 10GB of space. 2) Temp space will increase by around 8x but we will limit each user to no more than 500GB. If you need more disk space you will need to purchase it (see the invested user document for more details). 3) We will be increasing the compute power of the tool machines by approximately 12x but will be shutting down all the Sparc machines.
4) You will only have access to current opteron cluster and will face restrictions on the length, and potentially the amount, of jobs you can run on it. These changes will happen over the winter break.
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