Deployments
The Chimera Cluster
is a high-performance computing and visualization cluster that takes advantage of the synergies afforded by coupling central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), displays, and storage under an infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation. The infrastructure is being used to support a broad program of computing research that revolves around understanding, augmenting, and leveraging the power of heterogeneous vector computing enabled by GPU co-processors. The cluster is comprised of: a 128-processor Linux-based visualization cluster built on the Intel Xeon platform and interconnected with Infiniband. Each node has twenty-four GB of memory and NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GPU. The nodes are coupled with an 8 Terabyte shared file system and a 50-megapixel display wall that is made up of twenty-five LCD monitors.
The Skoll cluster
, supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and DARPA, is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of Distributed, Continuous Quality Assurance, and is comprised of: a 120-processor cluster running a mix of Operating Systems including Linux and Windows built on the Intel Pentium platform and coupled with a 3-terabyte Network Attached Storage System.
The CBCB Computing Facilities
. Scientists at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are involved in many different genome sequencing projects, both as principal investigators and as collaborators. CBCB brings together scientists and engineers from many fields, including computer science, molecular biology, genomics, genetics, mathematics, statistics, and physics, all of whom share a common interest in gaining a better understanding of how life works. The primary computing cluster consists of: a 288-core Linux-based cluster built on the 64-bit AMD Opteron platform and interconnected with Gigabit Ethernet. These nodes are coupled with a thirty terabyte network attached storage system, a Mysql relational database that provide access to data stored on a 3par Inserv Storage Server, and a 128 processor Hadoop cluster with 20TB of usable storage. The cluster also includes several large memory computing nodes built on the AMD Opteron platform: Four dual-processor nodes each have eight Gigabytes of memory and three quad-processor nodes each have thirty-two Gigabytes of memory.