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NCSA Organization

NCSA Director

     H. Edward Seidel

NCSA Executive Director

    Danny Powell

 

Leaders and Directorates

Research and Education

Director: Gabrielle Allen

     Theme Areas:

    • Computing and Data (Gabrielle Allen)
    • Earth and Environment (Shaowen Wang)
    • Bio and Health (Victor Jongeneel)
    • Physics and Astronomy (Athol Kemball)
    • Culture and Society (Donna Cox)
    • Materials and Manufacturing (Narayan Aluru)

 

ICI

Director:

 

Economic and Societal Impact

Director:

 

Administrative Support Personnel

Director's Office

Beth McKown

 

Office Managers

Pam Joop, Private Sector Program

Amber Moore, XSEDE

Laura Owen, Directors Office

Patty Roth, Human Resources

Deanna Spivey, Culture and Society

Jean Soliday, Advanced Digital Services

Susan Vinson, Blue Waters


Facilities

Tedra Tuttle

Public Affairs

Elizabeth (Liz) Murray

Finance

Alan Dudley

 

Information Technology Services

Douglas Fein


Getting Started at the NCSA

  • Obtain your NCSA Kerberos username and password from Research Coordinator (Amanda Thibault, alombar@illinois.edu.)
  • Review and sign-off on the NCSA Security Document using your login and Kerberos password. This document will be sent to you via email after your start date (see “NCSA Security Strategy” below.)
  • If you would like to have your students working in the building, please start by contacting the Research Coordinator.
  • Add a photo and personalize information on your NCSA electronic directory profile at https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/directory/. Go to “My Profile” on the left menu and be sure to fill in information on both the “Staff Directory Listing” and “Additional Information” tabs located at the top. To save changes, click “Publish” at bottom of the page.
  • Report estimated office space usage to Theme Lead and Research Coordinator (see “Office Hours for Faculty and Postdocs” below.)

 

NCSA IT Services

For laptop or desktop issues, please contact Alex Farthing or Bruce Mather at 244-5701, email help@ncsa.illinois.edu or stop by their office, NCSA Room 4042.

Alex and Bruce can help with all your computer issues and will install and assist with NCSA supported hardware and software. The IT Services wiki can also assist with general issues: https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/ITS/IT+Services.

If you have general problems with getting IT services at NCSA, the first place to try is the desktop support team. If you can’t find them or they are unable to answer your question (and the wiki URL did not help), send a note to help@ncsa.illinois.edu, and a ticket will be created for a group that can assist you. If you are not getting a response or your problem requires immediate results, you can also contact Doug Fein (dfein@ncsa.illinois.edu), manager of the NCSA IT Services group.


Network Issues

If you are in need of wireless, it is recommended that you use the campus provided IllinoisNet. To connect, follow the instructions at http://www.cites.illinois.edu/wireless/wpa2/ or contact Alex or Bruce. To use this network, you will need your University of Illinois NetID and password.

 

NCSA Kerberos Username and Password

This is your NCSA username and password that allow you to access most of the NCSA resources. These include wikis, ticket systems and the internal website known as Savannah or MIS. You should receive this information from Amanda Thibault.

 

NCSA Windows

The NCSA windows account is required to access printers and print drivers, as well as the NCSA file-server for Windows users. The NCSA desktop support group controls this password and account. You may not have this account by default, but stop by or send email if you find that you need it.

 

Meetings and Workshop Planning

To reserve space for a meeting, please contact your group’s office manager. If your group is not listed, please contact Laura Owen (lowen@illinois.edu) for assistance.


Workshops

If you are interested in hosting a workshop that facilitates the NCSA mission, please contact Amanda Thibault. Theme Leads must approve all proposed workshops.

 

NCSA’s Security Strategy

This document is to provide staff with tools and education concerning security policy and procedures. Relying on individuals to use these tools to implement security appropriate to their work, NCSA supports a variety of computing systems, services and research projects for a nationwide group of academic and industrial users. It is the responsibility of every employee to protect its assets and those of its staff and clients.

You can go to the following site or an email reminder will be sent to you within your first week of hire to electronically validate the NCSA’s security document located at https://internal.ncsa.uiuc.edu.mis/securitydoc/.

 

Building Access 

 

Keys and/or ID card swipe access will be assigned and provided by NCSA Facilities.


Office Hours for Faculty and Postdocs

In order to best utilize the space in the NCSA building, we ask that faculty and postdocs provide their theme lead and the research coordinator (Amanda Thibault) with the following:

  • Do you currently have another office space on campus?
  • Is the NCSA office your primary or secondary space?
  • Approximately how many hours per week do you estimate to be at NCSA over this next year?

 

Cyberinfrastructure Resources

Illinois Campus Cluster Nodes

NCSA is an investor in the Illinois Campus Cluster Program and currently holds sixteen nodes and three ten packs of disks. Specifically, the purchase was for:

  • Eight 64GB, 16 core nodes with Infiniband connection
  • Eight 64 GB, 20 core nodes with Infiniband connection with K40 GPUs
  • 90 TB of disk space which yields approximate 65 TB of useable space

These resources are available for appropriate NCSA staff and faculty use. To gain access you must first apply for an Illinois Campus Cluster Login at: https://campuscluster.illinois.edu/invest/user_form.html. Select “NCSA” as the primary queue. You will then be notified when your login has been created.

Gabrielle Allen (gallen@ncsa.illinois.edu) is the investor representative and Tim Boerner (tboerner@illinois.edu) is the operations manager.

The Illinois Campus Cluster Program webpage https://campuscluster.illinois.edu/ offers additional information for all experience levels. If you have any additional questions please contact the help desk at help@campuscluster.illinois.edu.


Innovative Systems Laboratory

NCSA’s Innovative Systems Laboratory (ISL) serves as the center’s research and development arm and is tasked with addressing mid- and long-term needs in core computing technology areas.

ISL’s focus is on new systems or impact on existing systems using emerging processing, storage and interconnect technologies and novel computing environments. ISL provides support for evaluating and developing new technologies of interest to NCSA programs and projects and NCSA academic and industrial partners.

Resources include:

For more information or to collaborate, please contact Volodymyr Kindratenko (kindr@ncsa.illinois.edu) or visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/org/isl.

 

Media Lab 

Information forthcoming


Mail Lists

Faculty are given an email address through NCSA that is automatically forwarded to your regular campus email. If you are not receiving NCSA emails, including the weekly NCSA newsletter “Bytes and Pieces”, please contact Amanda Thibault.


Faculty, Postdoc, and Student lists

A faculty email list (faculty@ncsa.illinois.edu) has been established for news and discussion. Faculty are encouraged to utilize this communication tool for information sharing within the Center faculty community. For other communications, there is also a postdoc mailing list (postdoc@ncsa.illinois.edu) and a student mailing list (student@ncsa.illinois.edu).


General lists

A software mailing list (software@ncsa.illinois.edu)  is used for news and discussion around software development and activities at NCSA.


Coming Soon: Theme Area lists

Find help on your own

The NCSA IT Services group provides general IT support and instructions to handle most basic questions in the NCSA wiki. Go to http://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu and look in the IT Services space for solutions. If you are unable to find the answer to your question, please email any of the contacts available on the page.