Author Archives: Naveed Near-Ansari

CITerra user meeting this wednesday

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Naveed Near-Ansari

We will be having a User meeting this Wednesday, February 15th. In it we will discuss the new cluster, how it differs from the previous cluster, and talk about how to get started using it.  Bring you questions. You can … Continue reading →

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The new GPS cluster is now up and running

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Naveed Near-Ansari

The new GPS cluster is up and running. The cluster is comprised of 314 dual Intel Westmere 6 core nodes with 48GB and memory each.   In addition, 60 of these nodes have 3 Nvidia M2090 GPUs for a total of … Continue reading →

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CITerra upgrade to take place in early December

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Naveed Near-Ansari

The CITerra cluster will be  composed of 254 traditional computes nodes.  Each has 12 cores and 4 GB of RAM per core.  The whole cluster will be connected with a low latency, high bandwidth network called infinibad.  In addition to … Continue reading →

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High Performance Computing (HPC) Service

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Naveed Near-Ansari

IMSS now offers a High Performance Computing (HPC) pay-as-you-go service. This service is ideal for faculty and research groups that do not have the resources to run their own HPC systems, which usually require large financial resources to maintain the … Continue reading →

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Somasim

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Naveed Near-Ansari

A new GPU cluster has been installed into South Mudd. This cluster has 72 Nvidia M2070 GPUs. It was built for running MD code.

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NeuroEcon cluster built

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Naveed Near-Ansari

The NeuroEcon cluster has been installed and being tested. This cluster has 12 compute nodes, and a  70 TB Lustre filesystem.  The cluster also is running the Matlab distributed comutation server.

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Ibrix filesystem has been upgraded to 3.1 on CITerra

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Naveed Near-Ansari

over the last 2 weeks we have been upgraded the filesystem on the CITerra cluster.  This has been completed and the cluster is back online.  This will hopefully solve the quota and dangling entry problems we have seen in the … Continue reading →

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HSS Cluster design underway

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Naveed Near-Ansari

We have been working on the design for the HSS cluster. This will haveabout 120TB of storage and 12-16 compute nodes. It will likely run the Lustre file system.

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Miller Cluster install has started

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Naveed Near-Ansari

On Monday June 16th, Dell arrived to start the “racking and stacking” phase of the new miller cluster. This cluster will be housed in the Powell-Booth Machine room thanks to CACR. Next week we start on the software installation and … Continue reading →

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Dell Day

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Naveed Near-Ansari

Date: June 25, 2008 Time: 9:00am- 2:00p Dell and our partners invite you to come learn about new products, recent technology advances in HPC clusters and solutions to enable the next generation of simulation. Come participate and learn about such … Continue reading →

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