IDIES Data Center

The IDIES Data Center (formerly Bloomberg 156) was renovated with support from the National Science Foundation through Grant OCI-0963185 “Advanced CyberInfrastructure for High Performance, Data Intensive Computing.” It was designed to provide an efficient, flexible and stable environment for operating, constructing and coupling a heterogeneous collection of hardware with special capabilities.

The facility opened in summer of 2011 and can support 100 racks of equipment drawing up to 750kW. The grant also enabled upgrades of the campus network to 10Gig so that data in the center can be accessed rapidly throughout campus and shared through Internet2.

Another NSF grant “Collaborative Research: 100G Connectivity for Data-Intensive Computing at JHU” (OCI-1137045) is providing this facility with 100Gig connectivity to College Park and Internet2.