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://acct.bu.edu/SCF/
. The faculty member serves as the principal
investigator for the project and may authorize
individual accounts for use by research associates
and students.
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IBM BlueGene,
1024 dualprocessor nodes, 5.7 Tflop peak. |
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IBM P690, 112 processors,
580 Gflop peak. |
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IBM P655, 48 processors, 210 Gflop peak.
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Linux Cluster, 52 Pentium
two-processor nodes for computation with
2.2 gigabit/sec Myrinet interconnect, 130
Gflop peak |
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IBM ESS Model 800 Storage Server
with 1.15 Terabytes of storage. |
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Deep Vision Display Wall, a scalable, high
resolution stereographic display wall powered
by a 24 node IBM Intellistation.
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LIVE: Laboratory for Immersive
Virtual Environments, with Pyramid Systems
Immersadesk, driven by a 2-processor SGI Power
Onyx equipped with Reality EngineII graphics. |
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Access Grid Conference Facility-a
node on the Internet2 high-performance network
using experimental suite of hardware and software
to facilitate group collaboration around the
world. |
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1 Gb/s connection to NoX
2.4 Gb/s Abilene-Internet 2 port. |
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
Please send comments to Cheryl
Endicott |
