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Community Compute Service
The UCD IT Services Research IT Community Compute Cluster is a unique proposition for UCD researchers to increase return on investment on high performance compute cluster equipment.
The concept behind the cluster is to allow small groups with restricted amounts of funding to pool hardware with UCD IT Services and other research groups to gain access to increased compute power thus maximising their investment in information technology. In return for contributing the cost of one or more nodes to the cluster researchers will get a allocation of core computational hours greater than that which they would get in spending the equivalent amount of capital themselves.
Contributors also benefit from a reduction in implementation time as well as removing the necessity for researchers or research groups to spend precious research time on administering computer equipment.The cluster is built, hosted and maintained by the UCD IT Services Research IT Services Team.
It is hosted in the Research IT Data Centre in the Daedalus Building, where it benefits from a purpose built air-conditioned environment with UPS and generator support.
How to Contribute
Research IT Services have devised a Contribution Model based on the capital and maintenance costs of the cluster. If you are interested in contributing to the cluster please read the contribution model and contact ResearchIT@ucd.ie
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Getting an Account
If you would like to apply for an account you can do so using our Account Request Form .
If you have any queries please email researchit@ucd.ie