High Performance Computing Center

GRENDEL

TTU HPCC's NEWEST COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE

Texas Tech University's High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) was established in 1999 to promote research and teaching on campus through integrating leading-edge high performance computing and visualization for the faculty, staff and students of Texas Tech University.

The HPCC provides consulting and assistance to campus researchers with experimental software and/or hardware needs. We also provide training in parallel and grid computing (as used at the facility) and administration for local high performance systems. HPCC serves as a liaison between various teams that are engaged in research. We work to support, configure and port applications to HPCC resources.

HPCC has computational resources which include several Linux clusters and a grid computing environment.Our newest computational resource Grendel, 175 in the November 2009 Top 500 list, achieving 33.5 Teraflop/s max sustained and 40 Teraflop/s peak performance in LinPack tests.The main portion of Grendel used for parallel computing was upgraded from 1680 to 3360 cores (420 dual-quad-core nodes) in October 2009. The machine has an additional portion consisting of 624 cores used for serial and community cluster computing.

Another computational resource available through HPCC is Antaeus. Antaeus is one of the major high performance computing resources available for TTU students and faculty. This systems uses Lustre to provide high availability and high bandwidth storage. Antaeus has 6TB of shared storage for all users and 10TB of scratch space for HEP group.

Additionally, TTU participates in local, regional and national grid projects. A local resource is TechGrid which consists of more than 300 CPU's. For more information about services, equipment, or grid computing efforts at Texas Tech University, please email hpcc@ttu.edu or contact our office directly at (806) 742-4350.