College of Information ScienceComputing Resources Working Group · Point people: Barney Maccabe and Greg Chism
Route assessment¶
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Supporting compute pilot. These DS/MLIS proposals retain their own $0 cash and Greg’s four-hour weekly envelope. They are not college-wide capacity findings or the working group’s selected solution. Return to working-group deliverables →
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| Work | Route to assess | Verify first |
|---|---|---|
| Required interactive CPU + GPU teaching | ACCESS resource/provider; conditional managed cloud option | Accounts, scheduling, simultaneous sessions, persistent homes, support and full term |
| Short independent research batches | OSPool; eligible PATh Facility or ACCESS | Interruptions, checkpointing, data policy and project eligibility |
| Instructor-led AI pilot | NAIRR Classroom; eligible notebook/model services | Instructor eligibility, course scope, quota, reporting and permitted data |
| Bounded experiments | Codespaces, Kaggle, Colab, conditional credits | Limits, queues, card requirements, output export and fallback |
| Durable apps, databases and archives | Separate hosting/storage/preservation service | Funding, uptime, backups, ownership, retention and restore |
Proposed pilot: two 40-student courses, a ten-person canary and a whole-class rehearsal. Every number is provisional until course leads and measurements confirm it.
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