High Performance Computing Center

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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, placed 289 in top 500 supercomputer list (November 2008) was installed in October 2008 in Experimental Sciences Building. It has total of 2312 CPUs, 210 dual-slot quad-core nodes with Intel E5405 processors for a total of 1680 3.0 GHz cores, connected with DDR Infiniband, with a rating of 20 peak teraflops and 16.5 HPL teraflops. Its Racks 9,10 have 64 nodes , 512 cores that are 2.3 Ghz, in addition to this, Rack 11 has 14 nodes, 112 cores that are 2.6 Ghz and a 70 terabyte Lustre file system runs over Infiniband.

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.