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The shared computing infrastructure is offered free to faculty, staff and students in the college of science by the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center. Approved by Dean Miralles and led by Dr. Chaowei Phil Yang, the center brought in a 600-node cluster from its NASA CISTO member to advance spatiotemporal computing across all science domains. The cluster operation is conducted by the center with support from COS Dean’s office, Mason Data center, and Mason IT to help Mason scientists achieve their research goals and convert research into value for broader societal benefit in three offerings!

1)   A Hadoop Distributed Filesystem for big data analytics is built for big data science

2)   Message Passing Interface powered High Performance Computing cluster (HPC) is offered to support numerical simulations

3) OpenStack based Cloud Sharing Platform (Cloud) is available for providing web-based services to a specific domain of science or the public