[RITL] Research Software and Licensing

[Thomas Girke]

We have labs using:

   - Matlab
   - STATA
   - GLOBUS
   - Ansys
   - Gaussian
   - There might be more.

For Matlab it would be useful to know what components our UCR license
covers. Or perhaps this is clearly spelled out somewhere?

Regarding Globus we are limited to the free version. Having access to the
full version would be great.

I guess an obvious suggestion is to survey how many labs are using what
software so that funds could be invested based on the number of users. Our
internal HPCC funding policy for commercial software usually is that labs
have to fund commercial software on their own if they are the only ones
using it, or identify a shared solution jointly with other user labs. Only
in specialty cases we contribute to the licensing fee, usually when there
are sufficient user labs and the cost is reasonable.

Another aspect that should be discussed here is teaching needs for some of
these commercial tools where recent cloud solutions should receive more
attention including Matlab Web and Posit Cloud. Some have JupyterHub
options that are often free but come at the cost of hosting them on local
or commercial cloud systems.

Thomas



On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 12:58 PM Chuck Forsyth <charles.forsyth at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Yes, I think you are right.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Jeff Flogerzi <Jeff.Flogerzi at medsch.ucr.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 3, 2023 3:51 PM
> *To:* Tom Gregory <tomg at engr.ucr.edu>; Chuck Forsyth <
> charles.forsyth at ucr.edu>; ritl at lists.ucr.edu <ritl at lists.ucr.edu>; Tom
> Gregory <tom.gregory at ucr.edu>; Victor Hill <victor.hill at ucr.edu>
> *Cc:* Shelley N Gupta <shelley.gupta at ucr.edu>; Mike Kennedy <
> michael.kennedy at ucr.edu>
> *Subject:* RE: Research Software and Licensing
>
>
> RedCap is free if self hosted correct?
>
>
>
> Jeff Flogerzi
>
> System Architect
>
> School of Medicine, Office of Information Technology
>
> 2660 School of Medicine Education Building
>
> 900 University Avenue, Riverside CA 92521-0120
> jeff.flogerzi at medsch.ucr.edu <jeff.pace at medsch.ucr.edu>
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>
>
> *From:* RITL <ritl-bounces at lists.ucr.edu> *On Behalf Of *Tom Gregory
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 3, 2023 12:45 PM
> *To:* Chuck Forsyth <charles.forsyth at ucr.edu>; ritl at lists.ucr.edu; Tom
> Gregory <tom.gregory at ucr.edu>; Victor Hill <victor.hill at ucr.edu>
> *Cc:* Shelley N Gupta <shelley.gupta at ucr.edu>; Mike Kennedy <
> michael.kennedy at ucr.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [RITL] Research Software and Licensing
>
>
>
> UCR current has a site license for Matlab, but getting it at the UC wide
> level would obviously be great.
>
> Some others in use in BCOE:
>
>    - NI/Labview
>    - Ansys
>
>
>
> Tom Gregory
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Chuck Forsyth <charles.forsyth at ucr.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 3, 2023 12:18 PM
> *To:* ritl at lists.ucr.edu; Tom Gregory <tom.gregory at ucr.edu>; Victor Hill <
> victor.hill at ucr.edu>
> *Cc:* Mike Kennedy <michael.kennedy at ucr.edu>; Shelley N Gupta <
> shelley.gupta at ucr.edu>
> *Subject:* Research Software and Licensing
>
>
>
> Hi Team,
>
>
>
> What research software are our users using that we would like to have a
> discount for, or would to see benefit from a UC system-wide license
> agreement?
>
>    - Matlab?
>    - ESRI?
>    - STATA?
>    - GLOBUS?
>    - REDCap?
>
> @Tom Gregory <tom.gregory at ucr.edu> @Victor Hill <victor.hill at ucr.edu> what
> about some of the engineering software out there like Ansys, Comsol,
> Maxwell, Gaussian, and Ababus do we have people running these? How is it
> funded?
>
>
>
> This is in support of a UC Research IT Committee RITC Research Software
> Democratization Recommendations
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1aiGkPLES95xGlDq2QNg4zfU5YPh7KPrLIKDTSQzD-Mc/edit?usp=sharing__;!!OLyWHuc!WeH6EWhOlGwsXLIsbcYbItk7WDd8QYiNEHTKopeRkqRiD7CvMyCYvhUrw1odUrNk3Qio8w6IyIbx158Xu4KlyklpwNU$> document
> we are working on this year.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
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Thomas Girke, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioinformatics
Director of High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC)
Director of Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics (GGB)
1207F Genomics Building
University of California
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