IMSE 8410 Advanced Computational Systems and Data Engineering
Material Copyright 2017-2019 by Timothy Middelkoop. Source code licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Documentation licensed under CC by SA 3.0.
Research Computing (RC) systems are the physical, computational, and software, infrastructure built by teams, to manage information.
RC System need physical infrastructure consisting of
- power,
- cooling,
- and space,
to supports the fundamental computational resources
- compute,
- storage, and
- networking.
From these resources a software system is built through
- provisioning (physical and logical),
- configuration,
- software (Operating System, libraries, applications), and
- security.
This infrastructure is used to manage information (data) through
- scientific processes (workflows),
- data,
- policy, and
- security.
All this is all brought together by teams with
- people,
- process, and
- community.
** Security a fundamental property of systems and applications.
- "High Performance Computing: Modern Systems and Practices" (Chapter 2, HPC Architecture 1; Chapter 3, Commodity Clusters )
- "OAC Vision & Blueprint: Overview and Computational Ecosystem" https://www.nsf.gov/cise/oac/vision/blueprint-2019/nsf-aci-blueprint-v10-508.pdf
- Flynn’s Taxonomy
- Moore’s Law
- Amdahl's Law
- Memory Hierarchies