College of Computing Infrastructure Input – MIT Department of Chemistry

The College of Computing working group on Computing Infrastructure is reaching out across the school to gather information on each lab, department and center’s current infrastructure and computing needs as well as their vision of future needs and opportunities. We would like to solicit your input to discuss the computing infrastructure scope and specific needs of the Department of Chemistry.

The envisioned scope of our report will include recommendations on:

– Computing resources (local clusters, shared central resources, cloud computing, …)
– Storage resources (local, central, cloud, …)
– Data management resources (policies, processes, multi-layered access, …)
– Common software tools for education and research (e.g. Matlab, Mathematica, …)
– Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (e.g. centralized repositories, …)
– Support for scientific computing (support staff for setup and training, …)
– Interface between college of computing infrastructure and existing resources

With regard to this scope, we would appreciate your answers to the following questions:

College of Computing Infrastructure Input

Name *

What are the current and future use cases? *

What computational infrastructure (hardware, software, data, people) do you currently use or have access to? How do you fund your current use? *

What computational infrastructure do you need? What would be the ideal scenario? *

Do you have specific values or priorities that the working group should capture? *

What is the vision for computational thinking in your domain?

What would infinite computing mean to your area? *

What works well? *

What are pain points for you? *

What are some lessons learned for you? *

What do you see changing in the future? *

Additionally, we appreciate any additional feedback that you can provide concerning this activity.

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