Services

RC Service Offerings

Research Computing (RC) offers a wide range of services to the PSU community:

- System Support for central computational research systems, including standard and parallel compute applications.
- Software Support for various computational and scientific software hosted on central research computing systems, including HPC applications.
- Data Storage for researchers and faculty.
- Database Systems and management.
- User Support on research computational systems.

Storage with Backups

Primary storage - excellent for important data that has to be backed up.

- - - - NetApp - 165 TB dedicated to research computing
        Network Volumes - I:\\Research (Windows), smb://share.research.pdx.edu (Mac)
        NFS volumes: /vol/share , /home , /vol/apps to computational systems
        Off-site backups - daily **
        Snapshots - hourly, daily, weekly, quarterly, yearly **

Storage WITHOUT Backups

Scratch volume - temporary storage location for computational work

- - - - 470TB+ available
        70TB+ /workspace
        Coeus HPC cluster - /scratch (170 TB)
        Gaia HPC cluster - /data (84 TB)
        No backups. No quota. First in, First out deletion rules.

- - RC provides MySQL and PostgreSQL open source database management systems. RC does not typically support other DBMS systems (e.g. Oracle and MSSQL) in a research context, Applications which must use currently unsupported DBMS can be considered, but would require grant or other funding for licenses, hardware, and support.
  - If you need a database for a research project or application, please create a request ticket by emailing help-rc@pdx.edu. If you need a database for a web application, please use the Website Creation or Access Request Form.

- - RC provides an ArcGIS Server cluster for serving online maps and hosting WMS, WFS services.

Research and Innovation Network (RAIN)