Achievement

New computational facilities at JHU have been initiated that allow trainees from all disciplines to run large-scale computations. The MCS IGERT has purchased 20 compute nodes, with a 16GB file server and two full disk subunits with 20TB of storage, all as a share of the Homewood High Performance Computing Cluster (HHPC). HHPC is a state-of-the-art facility, with 152 Dell 1950 rackmounted computers, each with 16GB of RAM, and two quad core processors. All IGERT trainees have access to this computational facility for their research. There are 5 trainees who use it currently, in applications ranging from molecular dynamics, to turbulence, to material fragmentation. The IGERT Director and two of the IGERT co-PI's have also initiated development of a 100TF GPU-based cluster with 100 Fermi GPUs and 50 quad-core processors (funded by NSF). This unique facility promises order of magnitude computational speed increase. It will be completed and made available to all IGERT trainees in Fall 2010.