In order to facilitate a centralized and shared compute facility at SCI, the Directorship will provide a match of up to 50% towards the purchase of compute systems, with the following provisions:

• This policy applies to compute resources (e.g. CPU/GPU) only and is not applicable to other facility resources (e.g. storage).
• Systems purchased with a SCI Directorship match will be made available for all SCI users to access. However, the PI may specify a group of users who will have priority access to the systems, with all other user’s jobs limited to when the system would otherwise be idle.
• Matching funds will be provided during the lifetime of the resource being matched, but may or may not be made available immediately. For example, for a multi-year grant, the matching funds may be awarded during a later year of the grant to spread out the cost and/or to take advantage of advances in technology over time.
• These systems must be rack-mountable, installed in a data center, and be approved and administered by SCI IT.
• Access to systems will be provided via accepted industry-standard methods for HPC and AI/ML research.  (E.g. Jobs will need to be submitted by a scheduler/workload manager without interactive logins.)

The matching grant will be based on available funds; please email with the details of your proposal to start a discussion.

Last update: 9/27/2024
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