Research Computing Platforms

The current research computing cyberinfrastructure at the University of Louisville provides a variety of systems for use in computational research. Available systems include a general-purpose high-performance distributed-memory cluster (with four GPGPU nodes), a high-memory SMP system, a statistics server, an informatics data management cluster, and a visualization server. All research systems are housed in the University's secure data center, administered by a team of specialized HPC system administrators, and supported by a team of research computing consultants. The cluster shares 600 TB of storage for home directories, software, and computing scratch space.

Facts about the distributed-memory cluster:

• 525 IBM iDatplex nodes each with two Intel Xeon quad or hex-core processors for 5052 total cores
• Each node has between 16 GB and  48 GB memory
  
• Each core has 2 GB or 4 GB of memory
• 4 nodes are equipped with dual NVIDIA C2050 Tesla cards
• Estimated peak performance of 35+ TFLOPS

The SMP system has:

• 16 IBM Power6 4.7GHz CPUs
• 128 GB memory

The informatics cluster contains 20+ TB of dedicated storage along with high-performance, high-reliability database servers and associated web and application servers.