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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

Decommissioned 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


Keywords:
CRC history NOTS decommissioned cluster VM cloud resources RTC ADA SUGAR Blue Gene STIC January Blue BioU DAVinCI PowerOmics SPICE 
Doc ID:
147969
Owned by:
Bryan R. in Rice U
Created:
2025-01-30
Updated:
2025-02-03
Sites:
Rice University