High performance computing collaboratory

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Each of the three facilities obtains wide area (external) network connectivity to the commodity Internet and Internet2 through dual 10 Gigabit/sec connections into the Mississippi Optical Network (MISSION), a regional optical network supporting research activities within the state.

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This network infrastructure supports full redundancy at the core and allows for aggregated connections to support high-bandwidth activities. The networking infrastructure backbone consists primarily of a 10-Gigabit Ethernet network interconnecting the organization's primary computing and storage systems, as well as an extensive number of high performance edge switches providing connectivity to the organization's more-than 500 high-end desktops and laptops. The HPCВІ advanced scientific visualization needs are met by an immersive CAVE-like virtual reality environment, dubbed the Virtual Environment for Real Time EXploration or VERTEX. Data storage capabilities include 8 petabytes of high performance RAID-enabled disk systems including a large parallel file system, and a 9 petabyte near-line storage/archival system.

The primary computational systems consist of a 593 TeraFLOPS cluster with 4800 Intel Ivy Bridge processor cores and 28,800 Intel Xeon Phi cores, 72 terabytes of main memory, 4 terabytes of Xeon Phi memory, and an FDR InfiniBand interconnect a 34 TeraFLOPS 3072-core Intel Westmere cluster with 6 terabytes of RAM and a quad data-rate InfiniBand interconnect a 10 TeraFLOPS 2048-core AMD Opteron cluster with 4 terabytes of RAM and a small Cray XT5 for applications development. This infrastructure includes high performance computing (HPC) systems, a fully-immersive 3-D scientific visualization system, high performance storage systems, a large capacity archival system, high-bandwidth networking systems, and an extensive number of desktop workstations. The HPC2 provides an advanced computing infrastructure in support of research and education activities of the collaboratory's member centers and institutes. It is the job of the member centers to help support and grow the HPCВІ's infrastructure while the HPCВІ's human and computational resources are leveraged by the member centers to increase MS State's scientific, educational, and economic footprint. The HPCВІ has been in operation for more than 20 years and has consistently been amongst the best managed and most powerful supercomputing sites in academia (and arguably in any sector). The HPCВІ member centers can vary greatly in their research/educational/service goals, but all are united by research excellence, a need for state-of-the-art high performance computing technologies/infrastructure, and histories of research and fiscal success both independently and as part of large multi-disciplinary teams. The HPC equipment and operations team serves a coalition of select institutes and centers (traditionally called 'member centers'). Trey Breckenridge, and a dedicated business staff led by Ms. These buildings house state-of-the-art high performance computer clusters (i.e., supercomputers), associated support instrumentation, a dedicated computing staff led by Mr. The STC building at the NASA SSC is a 38,000 square foot facility consisting of office space, classroom space, and a data center. The CAVS building is a 57,000 square foot facility consisting of numerous office suites, experimental laboratories housing an extensive array of equipment in support of materials, advanced power systems, and human factors research activities, as well as a small data center. The Portera HPC Building is a 71,000 square foot facility designed in an open manner to facilitate multi-disciplinary interactions and houses the organization's primary data center. The HPCВІ facilities include two buildings in Starkville, MS, the Portera HPC Building and the CAVS Building, both within the Thad Cochran Research, Technology, & Economic Development Park adjacent to the Mississippi State University campus, and the STC building at the NASA John C.

High performance computing collaboratory