As the demand for integrated AI solutions and computing continues to grow, more and more project owners are turning to have their own dedicated supercomputers. However, their research members could be distracted or inexperienced by the difficulty and/or complexity of configuring, installing and managing these rackmount servers and cluster setups for research use. Therefore UBDA would like to foster PolyU research by providing expertise and human resources in server hosting.
We are pleased to announce that UDBA would provide free of charges on administration, system monitoring, and application supports for the project-based rack server hosting and colocation. It would be graceful if PI(s) are willing to share their rack server(s) to other PolyU researchers while the server(s) are not utilized, but this is optional.
If interested, the delegate/contact-person can make appointment with UBDA about server hosting and colocation, UBDA will check the compatibility (rack-mountable, power supply rating, network connection interface etc) and provides recommendations for the projects/applications requirement.
Once the departmental/project rackmount servers have been procured and are already in PolyU Campus, UBDA will implement cable connection, network setup and help in liaising with PolyU ITS regarding the servers' network, firewall and security setup. Finally, UBDA will deploy the server’s services to the PI(s) research teammates to use, and UBDA will continue to provide system monitor and application support.
Since it is a free of charge service, and the server’s inventory owner still remains under their parent department (not UBDA), we would be appreciated if the research outcome associated with the underlying co-located servers can acknowledge our contributions in administrative and technical support in publications.
We acknowledge the University Research Facility in Big Data Analytics (UBDA) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for providing computing server’s administration and technical support.
Thank you!
For more information, please contact with our scientific officer Dillian Wong (dillian.wong@polyu.edu.hk)
