Boilerplate for Grants & Contracts

New ARC Computational Core Facility boilerplate description for grants and contracts (cut and paste into new proposals)

All grant/contract proposals to (insert) will have access to the Georgetown Computational Core Facility (CCF). The CCF provides state-of-the-art computational resources and expertise to researchers who are developing and analyzing computational and/or data intensive models in neuroscience, oncology, cellular processes, and other numerically-intensive disciplines. The primary hardware of the facility are several multi-processor Beowulf clusters capable of serial and parallel-processing across an array of high-speed central processing units (CPUs). This system also provides centralized file-server capabilities as well as resources necessary to archive and secure data. All computer resources are connected to the University's high-speed network, and to the Internet2 Abilene network, and follow the Georgetown University Information Security guidelines in compliance with the NIH Application/System Security Plan for Applications and General Support Systems. On-line user statistics for CCF clusters are available at http://www.clusters.arc.georgetown.edu/statistics/.

The Computational Core Facility is administered by the Georgetown University division of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) - http://arc.georgetown.edu. All University Departments can access the resources of this facility. In addition, the facility supports several Ph.D. and Master's level personnel with extensive experience in programming and computational support including systems administration and database programming. These personnel help ensure that faculty can take full advantage of available resources, as well as planned NIH technology in the grid computing space. Thus, the CCF provides an Institutionally-funded facility for extensive scientific support for grants and contracts via access to leading edge computational resources.

Contact ARC at 202-687-5420 or moores at georgetown.edu for specific budget development.

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