Road Map for SNIC investments and Services
Forum Discussion II
SNIC User Forum, Dec. 16 2014
“I've told you once.
No you haven't!
Yes I have.
When?
Just now.
No you didn't!
Yes I did!
You didn't!
I did!
You didn't!
I'm telling you, I did!
You did not!
Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?”
*From the Monty Python argument sketch
The task for SNIC
The responsibilities of SNIC should start somewhere and end somewhere, the question is where these start and endpoints lie.
SNIC should service and help all research that requires compute and/or storage resources
Or
SNIC should only focus on servicing research that requires large scale HPC and associated storage resources
SNIC compute resources
SNIC should provide more compute capacity
SNIC resource allocations
SNIC should provide resource allocations that run for longer than 12 months
Access for medium-size or large-size computing allocations is for 6 or 12 month periods. Does this match your research projects?
| Matches projects | Ratio |
|---|---|
| Yes | 40% |
| No, I would prefer to have allocations with longer duration | 41% |
| No answer/ Not applicable | 17% |
| Other | 2% |
SNIC resource allocations
Large SNAC allocations should be integrated with VR grants