UT Dallas Cyber Infrastructure for Research Department (UTD CI) offers a suite of cyber-infrastructure services to faculty, staff and students. When the university decided to bring the IT assets of the School of Natural Science and Mathematics (NSM) under UTD CI management, the transfer was complicated by several unknowns.NSM had everything from Linux® and Windows® desktop systems to servers and even small high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. There was no clear record of the age or condition of the systems, or how they were maintained or backed up.All this information needed to be captured and documented, and a management plan needed to be put into place. The UTD CI did not have enough resources to handle this considerable task, and turned to long-term partner, Dell Technologies for assistance. Dell Technologies recommended trusted HPC consulting partner, Houston-based X-ISS.To read this article in full, please click her
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