High Performance Computing and Communications Facilities

The University’s high performance computing and communications facilities are administered collaboratively by CCS and SCV and are made available to all members of the Boston University research community, their collaborators and students in approved courses. Any Boston University faculty member may initiate a research or educational project using the high performance computing facilities by submitting a Principal Investigator Application, available on-line via SCV’s World Wide Web server at http://www.bu.edu/tech/accounts/special/research/accounts/. The faculty member serves as the principal investigator for the project and may authorize individual accounts for use by research associates and students.

	IBM BlueGene, 1024 dualprocessor nodes, 5.7 Tflop peak.
	Linux Cluster, 1308 processors, 17.43 Tflops peak
	IBM System Storage with 84 TB
	Deep Vision Display Wall, a scalable, high resolution stereographic display
	wall powered by a 3 Lenovo ThinkStation D20s
	10 Gb/s connections to NoX 2x10 Gb/s Internet2 backbone

SCV supports the computational science community in the effective utilization of high performance computing resources with a broad range of services including tutorials, consulting, hard copy and video production and information services. SCV consultants provide help in the use of various programming tools and packages, code parallelization and optimization, numerical methods and matrix solvers, visualization, and other areas.

3 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215 - tel: 617-353-6078 - fax: 617-358-2487
Page last updated on January 7, 2013. Please send comments to Cheryl Endicott.