Research Computing

Revised September 2005

Public Access Cluster Environment (PACE)

PACE is a campus-wide, high performance computing effort facilitated through the Office of Information Technology (OIT). The central resource is a commodity computing cluster formed from joint Institute and faculty collaboration and funding. Through PACE's provision of conditioned space and common services (primarily networking, software licenses, system administration, and file backup), faculty are freed of the obligations and concerns of building their own clusters and are provided with a more up-to-date, stable, and secure facility. The Institute on the whole is able to take advantage of market opportunities and economies of scale through PACE. Staffing and funds can be leveraged across the broader base.

For more information, see the PACE Web site.

Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC)

The Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC) is a research program working in the areas of measurement, management, security and control of networks, network services, computational resources and enterprise systems. It includes researchers and facilities from across Georgia Tech as well as partners from industry and other institutions.

Projects that RNOC is involved in:

• Network Trace Collection
• CPR: Campus-Wide Network Performance Monitoring and Recovery
• Book of Knowledge - An Online Asset Management Platform
• Optical Network Management
• EDGER - Enhanced Data Gateway for Extended Roaming
• VoIP Security and Billing Architectures
• Cellular/Wi-Fi Service Integration
• Georgia Tech Cellular Usage Research Project
• Georgia Tech Trolley Locator

For more information, see the RNOC Web site.