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Rural medicine
Benchmarking network latency across WY
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Automate the ARCC cluster utilization report system
This project builds on the “utilization analysis“ work we did in Summer 2022, see below. Now that we know what measures we want to track, we need an automated system to do it. This will involve building a database of cluster jobs and storage utilization. Then current Python scripts will need to be adapted to mine this database for a specific time frame in order to produce appropriate reports that can be shared with the UW faculty and administration, posted on the ARCC website for public consumption, or reported to the State governor’s office.
General system administration
We are looking for technically minded students who would like to engage in HPC cluster administration tasks and help us out with hardware installation, wiring, testing
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; software installation, configuration and testing; user support, etc.
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Automate the cluster utilization report system
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storage
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Bioinformatics workflow management and automation
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Databasing
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Web development
Training will be provided.
Code improvements for scientific web applications
ARCC administers a number of research web applications that have been written a few years ago and could use code improvements, upgrade to current security standards, and incorporation of best practices. Work will involve investigating how a particular web server is set up with regards to interaction between html and PHP codes, database querying, Apache setup etc. Once the setup has been understood, improvement or re-implementation will proceed under the supervision of ARCC staff and the faculty stakeholders.
VM development for standardized research and training environment
ARCC is engaged with a number of training initiatives on campus that require standardized software environments to teach software coding, such as specific IDEs, conda environments, specific versions of software installed etc. We need to build a range of virtual machines that would support such environments for each class or workshop being administered, so that the VM could be supplied on WyoLearn for asynchronous learning.
Engagement with Pacific Research Platform
Pacific Research Platform gives compute access for researchers to perform very large parallel GPU-based computations https://pacificresearchplatform.org . We would like to be able to support UW faculty, staff and students in deploying their workloads on this platform. However, it has a somewhat unusual setup. We need a brave student or three to deploy a project on this platform and figure out how to use it, so as to expand the ARCC bandwidth in supporting users on PRP.
Projects that have run in Summer 2022
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