The UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
is the community-based, interdisciplinary core facility for
scientific computing and research on parallel algorithms at UMBC.
Started in 2008 by more than 20 researchers from
ten academic departments and research centers
from all three colleges, it is supported by
faculty contributions, federal grants, and the UMBC administration.
The facility is open to UMBC researchers at no charge.
Researchers can contribute funding for long-term priority access.
System administration is provided by the
UMBC Division of Information Technology,
and users have access to consulting support provided by
dedicated full-time graduate assistants.
See hpcf.umbc.edu
for more information on HPCF and the projects using its resources.

The current machine in HPCF is the distributed-memory cluster maya
with over 300 nodes.
The newest components of the cluster are the 72 nodes
with two eight-core 2.6 GHz Intel E5-2650v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs and 64 GB memory 
that include 19 hybrid nodes
with two high-end NVIDIA K20 GPUs (graphics processing units)
designed for scientific computing and
19 hybrid nodes with two cutting-edge 60-core Intel Xeon Phi 5110P accelerators.
These new nodes are connected along with the 84 nodes
with two quad-core 2.6 GHz Intel Nehalem X5550 CPUs and 24 GB memory 
by a high-speed quad-data rate (QDR) InfiniBand network
for research on parallel algorithms.
The remaining 168 nodes
with two quad-core 2.8 GHz Intel Nehalem X5560 CPUs and 24 GB memory
are designed for fastest number crunching and connected by
a dual-data rate (DDR) InfiniBand network. 
All nodes are connected via InfiniBand to a 
central storage of more than 750 TB.