Academic HPC Resources

Computation has joined theory and experiment as the third pillar in scientific discovery. Multi-threaded and parallel programs are needed to drive manycore devices of the future. Modern applications produce or require huge volumes of data requiring computing systems that have data-intensive capabilities.

Through the application of Georgia Tech Technology Fee grants, the College of Computing has acquired and operates three high-performance computing (HPC) clusters for use in courses in parallel/distributed algorithms, large-scale data analysis, multi-core programming, and other computing fields. Faculty teaching courses in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Division and the School of Computer Science (CS) may request access to these HPC resources prior to the semester for their class projects. These HPC resources are located in the College of Computing Building Data Center.

For details on these clusters, please refer to the individual cluster pages linked in the table below:

HPC Resource	Description
Jazz Cluster	4x IBM System x3755, 32 cores, and 80TB of formatted file system storage. Supports CSE Division courses in HPC, parallelism, large-data processing.
Hogwarts Cluster	6x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers, based on the Intel "Nehalem" processor, 48 cores and roughly 12TB of formatted file system storage. Supports CSE Division courses requiring parallel and/or distributed compute jobs and/or medium- to large-scale data processing jobs .
Factor Cluster	9x Dell PowerEdge R610 servers, based on the Intel "Nehalem" processor, 72 cores. 2x Dell PowerEdge R710 file servers with 7TB of storage. VM farm in support of School of CS courses in the areas of energy-aware, distributed, and multi-threaded programming, as well as linux kernel hacking.