UMBC High Performance Computing Facility : Resources for Users
This page last changed on Jan 22, 2009 by straha1.
hpc.rs.umbc.edu is a distributed-memory cluster with currently 33 compute nodes, each equipped with two dual-core AMD Opteron processors and 13 GB of memory, connected by an InfiniBand network and with an Infiniband-accessible 14 TB parallel file system. The initial purchase in 2008 pooled funds from several researchers with seed funding from UMBC. This machine will be extended over the next three years up to a total of 128 compute nodes with funding partially supported by the National Science Foundation and additional funding from individual researchers. If you are interested in joining the effort, contact the chair of the user committee: Matthias K. Gobbert (gobbert@math.umbc.edu).
If you want general information about this cluster, or if you think you may want to start using our cluster, see our page for prospective users. Users of HPC should look at our page for current users. For information about various research projects based on HPC, see our research projects and results page. If you need significantly more resources than our cluster can provide, you should consider applying for an account on Teragrid – the NSF terascale computing infrastructure. It consists of over a dozen clusters all over the US, numerous web resources and consulting services. It is described by the Teragrid about page as, "an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eleven partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource." See our page about getting access to Teragrid for useful Teragrid-related links, an explanation of the process of obtaining a Teragrid account, and tips about how to write your Teragrid proposal. If you cannot find what you need, see if the answer to your question is on our frequently asked questions page, contact us or visit us during our in-person support hours. |
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