Fit to programme

This was a proposed solution answering Task 011: Durham HPC Lab, behind WP 1.3.

Summary

The HPC Hardware Lab at Durham University is a leading laboratory for researchers wishing to access the latest cutting edge technologies relevant for HPC. It includes the latest GPU models, CPUs, networking technologies, storage, and extends to data centre infrastructure, including immersion cooling and waste heat reuse. This Lab has grown organically over time, and so much of the documentation has tracked its progress. This means that it is not always straightforward to navigate, nor to find out how to access a particular hardware component (authorisation and authentication), and how to best make use of that hardware. This proposal therefore cleans up the documentation, makes it consistent across various locations, integrates links into the SHAREing testbed database (https://shareing-dri.github.io/tasks/009_portal/) and also ensures that there is consistency with the criteria identified by Task 001 (defining a common description for Hardware Lab components).

Outcomes

The main output will be clear and clean documentation for the HPC Hardware Lab at Durham, with a known go-to location for information, and easy and natural navigation capability. This project will also deliver content feeds into SHAREing’s hardware portal.