DICE: Data Intensive Computing Environment

Real Testing * Real Data * Real Results

Collaborations

Collaborators are researchers at federal or state government agencies, data centers or within academia who want to work with the DICE program on projects of broad community interest and value. Our collaborators have access to the DICE test bed and expertise as we work together to solve some of toughest problems facing the HPC and IT communities.

Organization Description of Relationship
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/ Office of Science The DICE program and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have jointly architected a data center test site that includes an alternatively cooled IBM Linux cluster. This has been integrated into the larger distributed DICE test bed.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/ NNSA (Sandia and PNNL) The DICE program and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) community have worked together on research and publishing of research results. We are currently working with Sandia on Tools and metrics to evaluate parallel file systems and long-haul InfiniBand performance and capabilities.
NASA Goddard The DICE Program and NASA have jointly architected and installed a data center test site that includes a “fat node” (4 dual core CPUs per node) Linux Cluster system and then integrated it into the larger distributed DICE Test Bed. NASA has been a member of the DICE advisory committee since the start of the DICE program. NASA has also authored and/or co-authored many DICE reports.
The Ohio State University, 
Department of Computer Science & Engineeering,
Dr. D.K. Panda		 Dr. D.K. Panda has shared the expertise of his group and software tools to assist DICE in the evaluation and performance of InfiniBand based products.