This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Through the recent administrative supplement for SD BRIN for technology, Mr. Reynoldson is investigating, ordering, and implementing the increased storage capabilities for research data. The bioinformatics team installed a new Sun Microsystems StorEdge 3511 Fiber Channel Attached Serial ATA RAID Array and configured it to store sample data for the Proteomics Lab. This new array is the first in the group to support multi-TeraByte (TB) Unix file systems. The array provides 3TB of storage, and the facility is already utilizing nearly 500 GigaBytes (GB) of the allocated storage. One of the unforeseen side benefits of implementing this storage is that it provides experience with a new technology to the team which will be beneficial in other upcoming research projects which require large amounts of storage. All bioinformatics core computing equipment was co-located in the University Information Technology Services (ITS) server facility. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) between ITS and the BRIN PI was drafted, agreed upon, and signed. The co-location of the equipment will satisfy the regulatory requirements of the ITS department, and it will improve the reliability and availability of the core computing equipment. Because it was physically relocated to a new building, the equipment was configured to support remote administration in order to facilitate administering the equipment via the network. All of the day to day administration of the equipment can now be done remotely, and the administration of the equipment can be delegated to ITS employees without compromising the privacy of research data. SD BRIN was awarded an administrative supplement grant to implement new computing infrastructure for 3 projects. The first project is a large network storage facility for researchers on campus. The goal of this project is to provide network storage to researchers who generate large amounts of data through various research devices. An alarming number of those researchers only store their data on the PC directly connected to such devices, and they are therefore susceptible to data loss through component failure. The nearly 20 TB of network storage is accessible by researchers via PCs running the Windows, Linux, or OS X operating systems. It is a flexible design primarily intended for archival rather than high performance storage. The grant includes money to extend the existing tape backup system to support the new storage facility. The second project is to provide a similar network storage facility at 2 of the SD BRIN partner institutions, namely Black Hills State University and Augustana College. These institutions were identified as having the most research equipment which would utilize large amounts of storage. Each institution will receive Windows Storage Servers with 1 TB of network storage housed by the IT department locally. These devices will be backed up locally as well as to the USD campus for the purposes of disaster recovery.
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