ICS Computing Support Announcements: Winter Quarter 2017

Cloud computing provides a cost effective way for researchers to extend computing capabilities without significantly increasing their capital expenditures.

Computing Support can project ICS services into the Google Cloud Platform.

Computing that is not used, turned off, is not typically charged but can be scaled up quickly when additional resources are needed.

• Google Cloud Platform @ ICS
• Amazon Web Services @ UCI

Virtual box and Vagrant are available on most ICS instructional and research compute hosts. Any user with login privilege may create a virtual machine using these utilities.

• Virtual box
• Vagrant based on Virtual Box

This information, as well any updates and changes, is summarized at the following link:

https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/virtual_environments:virtual_environments

Please contact ICS Compuitng Support Helpdesk with any questions regarding these services.