Academic Servers and HPC Clusters

Overview

Information Services centrally hosts hundreds of servers in two data centers on campus in order to meet the technology distribution needs of the University.  This includes everything from managing the operating systems for robust and secure operation to the electrical and air-cooling needed for the physical requirements. 

For scholarship and research computing, there are 22 hosted servers and High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters (a group of several individual servers) that support research and teaching needs from business classes that involve database management to atmospheric computational modeling. 

Details

Below is the list of scholarship and research computing servers and HPC clusters, the year they were installed, and the principal(s) involved.

  1. abacus24 (2008; Computer Science and Professional and Continuing Studies; virtual machine)
  2. bioimages (2018; Omar Quintero/Imaging Lab, Biology)
  3. dunamis HPC cluster (2008; Kelling Donald, Chemistry)*
  4. fermat24 (2008; Math, Computer Science; virtual machine)
  5. genome (2019; Melinda Yang, Biology)
  6. hemisphere (2021; Geography; virtual machine)
  7. horn (2020; Jon Park, Math-CS)
  8. hopper24 (2020; Art Charlesworth, Computer Science; virtual machine)
  9. mariana (2019; Stephanie Spera, Geography)
  10. mcsgpu (2018; Prateek Bhakta, Computer Science)
  11. overlap HPC cluster (2010; Carol Parish and Kelling Donald, Chemistry)*
  12. rsbdb24 (2018; Tom Mattson, RSB Management; virtual machine)
  13. spdrweb (2021; Academic Affairs)
  14. spydur HPC cluster (2021; Academic Affairs)
  15. still (2021; Shweta Ware, Computer Science)
  16. urarana HPC cluster (2019; Carol Parish, Chemistry)*
  17. urspdr HPC cluster (2012; Carol Parish, Chemistry)*
  18. vadur HPC cluster (2016; Carol Parish, Chemistry)*

*Denotes server (or cluster head node) is in the Restricted Network.

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