University Information Services (UIS) is charged with providing technology services, access to information, and supporting administrative systems for the faculty, students, staff, and administration of Georgetown University. In addition, UIS is responsible for creating a technology infrastructure to support electronic communication -- voice, video, and data -- now and into the future. UIS operates under the direction of the Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO), with guidance from various advisory groups.

UIS Research Technology services include enterprise institutional IT support for server and database hosting, secure data storage and sharing, comprehensive data backup and recovery services, and high performance computing (HPC) shared resources. The Georgetown University Information Security Office provides computer and network security and policies (http://security.georgetown.edu/). All equipment and resources are housed in a secure, managed data center (Laurel Data Center). Georgetown University networks connect to the public Internet via a Gigabit link, and to Internet2's IP network via Mid-Atlantic Crossroads.

This project requires high performance computational (HPC) resources and expertise for computationally intensive research , administered by the Network and Computing Services (NCS) division of University Information Services. This service is part of Georgetown University’s central, institutional research data framework, and follows university security requirements (http://security.georgetown.edu/47207.html). The NCS shared cluster is the first system on campus to use low latency, high bandwidth networking and parallel, clustered storage.

Two levels of service are available on the new University purchased shared-use cluster:
Standard Account: Users purchase CPU hours on the main system with no restrictions, at $.05 per core/hour.
Basic Account*: Users use a limited set of resources with restrictions (5000 hours at $125 per year).

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This project requires enterprise data storage resources and expertise, administered by the Network and Computing Services (NCS) division of University Information Services. This services is part of Georgetown University's central, institutional research data framework, and follows university security requirements (http://security. georgetown.edu/47207. html)

Approximately (insert amount of storage in gigabytes or terabytes) will be required for the period of this award. The cost is approximately: $1 per gigabyte, with backup but not disaster recovery or $2 per gigabyte, with backup and disaster recovery.

This project requires virtualized IT hosting environment resources and expertise administered by the Network and Computing Services (NCS) division of University Information Services. This virtualization saves on overall IT costs by consolidating resources, delivered on university managed virtualized (shared) servers , and improves the security, efficiency, and availability of resources, data, and applications. These services are part of Georgetown University's central, institutional research data framework, and follow university security requirements (http://security. georgetown.edu/47207.html)