Managed Servers

Overview

Our Managed Servers are:

  • Designed to meet your requirements.
  • Implemented and maintained by IT professionals with a balance of performance, security, and control to meet the R&D needs of our PAIRS partners.
  • Hosted with UAB IT with up-time and support guarantees as described in the service-level agreement (SLA) linked in FAQ item #6.

Consider whether your time (and your team's) is better spent performing and overseeing IT tasks necessary when hosting your own servers vs. hosting your databases and applications with us right away and directing your valuable attention to scientific questions of interest.

Take advantage of the hundreds of hours already invested as described above and ongoing as we continue to improve and grow together!

Use Cases

Public Web Application Hosting for Method Paper

  • Web "tier" runs on Discovery
  • Database "tier" runs on Watson
  • 24/7 SLA from UAB IT

Docker-to-Singularity Builds for Cheaha

  • Build Singularity images to run on Cheaha
  • Start from your own Dockerfiles or public Docker images

Resources

Discovery Web Server

  • Host name: discovery.informatics.uab.edu
  • Role: Web Server
  • Applications
  • Access
    • One (1) dedicated virtual host and shell accounts available upon request for PAIRS partners.
    • Unix permissions to subdirectory of Apache document root for your virtual host.

Watson Database Server

  • Host name: watson.informatics.uab.edu
  • Configuration
    • Speed: 40 Cores
    • RAM: 250 GB
  • Role: Database Server
  • Databases
    • Oracle
  • Access
    • One (1) dedicated database and user accounts for PAIRS partners.

Amazon AWS EC2

We also maintain infrastructure in Amazon AWS for rapid prototyping and other cloud use cases.

Advantages

  • < 5 min to provision an EC2 instance
  • sudo for power users
  • It is "elastic"
    • Fast to spin up.
    • Can go away (and not cost $$$) once you are done exploring a new idea.