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CRC History
Historical information about the CRC.
NOTS Name
The current NOTS cluster is named after a system called the Night Owls Time-Sharing Service. operated by the Institute for Computer Services and Applications (ICSA) at Rice. See this entry from 1973 in the Rice History Corner for more information.
Decommissioned Systems
Clusters
| Cluster Name | Decommissioning Date |
|---|---|
| RTC | March 15th, 2009 |
| ADA | July 15th, 2011 |
| SUGAR | July 1st, 2014 |
| Blue Gene/P | June 3rd, 2015 |
| STIC | January 29th, 2016 |
| Blue BioU | August 21st, 2018 |
| Blue Gene/Q | December 31st, 2018 |
| DAVinCI | August 30th, 2019 |
| PowerOmics | December 11th, 2020 |
VM/Cloud-type Resources
- Shared Pool of Integrated Computing Environments (SPICE) -- Decommissioned: March 27th, 2018