DICE: Data Intensive Computing Environment

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Reports & Publications

The DICE program offers the strength of a seasoned team of computing, network and cooling experts with the objectivity of an independent, third party evaluator. Through our proven independent testing methodology, the team tests and evaluates hardware and software products and generates test and evaluation reports to enable informed decisions and accurate product information.

We offer DICE reports documenting tests and evaluations conducted in the DICE environment as well as special studies including data management challenges and surveys on power and cooling. A wealth of information is available from the DICE team of experts and collaborators. Quite simply, the DICE environment provides:

DICE/IDC Special Study

DICE teamed up with IDC to conduct a special study on the current power and cooling practices in HPC as well as plans for future power and cooling innovations. The report, Power & Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers, was conducted in two phases. Both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the study are complete.

Power and Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers

TO DOWNLOAD EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, click on the report title below.

Phase 1 Overview - pages 1-5 of complete report (pdf)
Phase 2 Overview - pages 1-6 of complete report (pdf)

FOR A FULL COPY OF ONE OR BOTH REPORTS, please click here.

DICE Test & Evaluation Reports, White Papers & Special Studies

Browse through our list of complimentary publications and report overviews. Simply click on the name of the report to download a pdf file.

Test & Evaluation Reports

Project		Investigator	Date
	Key Management System/Sun Microsystems	Michael Fisher	12/29/09
	Center for Performance Evaluation of Cluster Networking Technologies	Dr. DK Panda	11/10/09
	Data Deduplication Quantum StorNext	Sean Burke	11/05/09
	Data Deduplication Data Domain	David Elghammer	10/3/09
	Power and Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers - Phase 2	Steve Conway	Fall 2009
	Power and Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers - Phase 1	Steve Conway	06/11/09
	Information Lifecycle Management/Hitachi	Chris Centers	04/30/09
	Information Lifecycle Management/iRODS	Wayne Schroeder	03/31/09
	Information Lifecycle Management/Nirvana SRB	Constantin Scheder	10/24/08
	Network Attached Storage	Jon Gebhardt	10/17/08
	Framework for Loosely Coupled Wide Area File System Access	Pete Wyckoff	08/19/08
	Local and Remote Metadata Replication	Mark Roberts	11/01/07
	Performance Enhancements for GrADs in WAN	Ben Kobler	11/01/07
	HPC Data and Metadata Acceleration via a RAM-based Storage Device	Tom Nelson	10/26/07
	Dynamically Established SAN Extensions	Ben Kobler	10/25/07
	Data Aware Scheduling	Ed Lauzier	10/25/07

White Papers

Paper		Author	Date
	How Important is a Website? - Calculating ROI on Your Investment	Shannon Schraegle	6/16/10

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