Services
At the core, the eScience Institute is about expertise. Expertise in managing, analyzing or visualizing data, in developing algorithms, in managing clusters and storage resources, and in finding the right place to compute and to store your data. We provide access to expertise through a variety of channels...
ConsultingThe UW eScience Institute provides consulting services for researchers with data-oriented problems. We can help with a wide variety of issues.
Not sure how to manage your growing data? Need help establishing a database? Is your existing database bursting at the seams and needs to be redesigned or moved to a new platform? Do you have a massive set of data streaming from an instrument, or from an interesting data set? We can help!
Proposal Preparation
The eScience Institute can help you with the preparation of the technical sections of your funding proposals. Everything from helping you evaluate your computational requirements, to assisting you in securing budgetary quotes from vendors, to fully-funded collaborations to develop software and algorithms.
See this list of CyberInfrastructure RFPs (UW internal link) for current activities in this area.
Data Management
Not sure how best to manage your growing data? Need help establishing a database? Is your existing database bursting at the seams and needs to be redesigned or moved to a new platform? We can help!
HowTos:
Algorithms, Programming and Tools
Need advice developing novel algorithms? Scaling up existing algorithms to operate on 1000X larger datasets? Designing a database to manage your observational data? Unsure what is the best tool to use for your problem? We have experience in these activities and are seeking partners, whether in the context of a specific proposal or part of day-to-day operations. See the Computational Methods page for more information on techniques we employ.
Cloud Computing and Remote Resource Planning
Whether it's a TeraGrid allocation, an introduction to Amazon's EC2 and S3 services, or a Q&A on Microsoft's Azure platform, we can point you in the right direction. See more about cloud computing options on the Platforms page.
Computing Resources - Clusters, Storage & Networking
Not sure where you should be doing your computing? On a machine in your lab? On a small cluster located in your department? In a shared cluster located in a central UW datacenter? On some large national supercomputer or other remote computational engine? In the cloud? We can help you assess the best solution for your problem.
Need to back up 100TB of data? Need to preserve your data for years, while only keeping the latest year on local disks? Need to ensure disaster recovery if Seattle suffers an 8.0 quake? Solutions are at hand and we can help you find them.
Are you troubled by frustratingly slow data transfers between UW and off-campus sites? Are you planning a multi-site deployment here on the Seattle campus? You're not the first and you're not alone. We can help connect you with the appropriate resources to solve these problems and many others. See the Computing and Storage Platforms page for more information about computing resources.
Datacenter and Collocation Planning
Now your proposal is funded and you want to buy a big cluster. Where are you going to put it? Do you have local resources for housing it? For operating it? We can help you avoid this problem by starting the process of data-center planing while your cluster is still in the planing stages. The more UW Technology knows about your plans, the better they can accommodate your needs.
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