he Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center (MARCC) is in its 5th year of operation. MARCC, the core research computing facility for Johns Hopkins University and a resource for the University of Maryland, was established in 2015 via a generous grant from the State of Maryland. In this talk, you will learn how this core facility has evolved, about a few projects that have greatly benefited from these HPC resources, and the transition to a new ecosystem that enables the interoperability between traditional HPC and Data Intensive Computing using existing facilities and appliances at JHU, namely the SciServer (sciserver.org) and the Open Storage Network (OSN), to provide access to both data and computation as well as postprocessing and data sharing requirements. This unique capability will become a powerful resource used by interdisciplinary data scientists in many fields to develop new methods, tools and workflows, enabling the integration of information from different but related sources that, in turn, will allow a deeper understanding of data-driven research.
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Jaime is the Director of the Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center (MARCC) and Associate Research professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. MARCC provides cyberinfrastructure to advance research, scholarship and creativity at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. Currently, Jaime is involved in creating an ecosystem that transparently integrates traditional HPC with data intensive computing.