MRI: Acquisition of a NUMA-based Supercluster for High Performance Computing

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL

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Abstract

This project, enabling high performance computing, aims at purchasing and operating a supercluster to complement current federal and state investments and help drive related research and educational activities. The institution has initiated a collaborative enterprise among the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and five other PhD-granting departments from the Colleges of Engineering and Science (Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and local industries) and has established a Center High Performance Computing. Housed in the Center, the cluster involves research groups from computer systems and scientific computing. The Center services: -Research: on high performance computing; -Development: tools for parallel programming on the supercluster; -Service: other departments on campus, and also local community, such as area high schools; -Education: computing environment enables courses for students to gain hand-on experience; and -Collaboration: joint research with local industries to develop advanced tools for designing and executing parallel programs. The research projects, many involving extensive computation, include: -Porting of TICC-PP software infrastructure to Linux -Video coding, -Biometrics, -Mathematical problems, Physics of materials, and -Genomics. Broader Impact: The platform fosters collaborations with local industries, higher and K-12 education, and government agencies. Moreover, it contributes to train a diverse population of students in high performance computing.