Institute for Digital Research and Education:
High Performance Computing

Advanced research has moved beyond the capacity of a single computer for detailed multi-level simulations, data analysis, and large-scale computations. Because of the increasing complexity and requirement for sheer computational horsepower, these needs are increasingly met with tightly integrated cluster systems consisting of hundreds to hundreds of thousands of processors, terabytes to petabytes of high-performance storage, and high bandwidth/low latency interconnects consuming megawatts of power. In addition to the need for powerful hardware, the software that runs on these systems must be written to take advantage of the computational power available on a particular system.

This is the domain of high-performance computing (HPC).

To meet the need for small- to medium-sized cluster computing requirements and to provide a pipeline to resouces at national computing centers, IDRE provides the campus with the Hoffman2 cluster and manages the IDRE Cluster Hosting Program.