About the SuperComputing Science Consortium
In 1998, West Virginia University became the state’s fastest bridge to high performance computing on campus and around the world. From Beowulf clusters to the "big iron" at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), WVU faculty and their partners throughout the region benefit from fast access to state-of-the-art technology in the computational sciences.
And as a member of the SuperComputing Science Center, or (SC)2, WVU has access to the PSC through an OC-12 line. Machines at the PSC include:
- lemieux, a terascale HP Alphaserver Cluster comprising 750 4-processor compute nodes.
- rachel, a set of SMP machines, each with 64 1.15 GHz EV 7 processors and 256 Gbytes of shared memory.
- jonas, a set of SMP machines dedicated to biomedical research. Each machine has 64 1.15 GHz EV 7 processors and 256 Gbytes of shared memory.
- ben, an HP Alphaserver cluster comprising 64 4-processor, 4-Gbyte compute nodes.
- seq, an SMP machine with 4 1.0 Ghz EV 7 processors and 8 Gbytes of shared memory, dedicated primarily to sequence analysis.
- The Opteron cluster , a set of dual processor 1.4 Ghz AMD Opteron machines with 4 Gbytes of memory per machine.
- The Intel cluster with 20 4-processor compute nodes.
- An SGI Origin, named golem, serves as an archival system.
- Front end machines running either Digital Unix or VMS or provide access to the supercomputers.
Additionally, the WVU Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering hosts a Beowulf cluster of 56 processors housed at the WVU Research Office.
Other (SC)2 members include:
- the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
- the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Carnegie Mellon University
- the University of Pittsburgh
- West Virginia University
- the West Virginia Governor's Office of Technology
- the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR)
- Duquesne University
- the Pennsylvania State University
- Waynesburg College
- the NASA IV & V program.
Partners advance fossil fuel-based energy and environmental technologies in support of NETL’s research mission.
Contacts:
At WVU, researchers may contact Richard A. Bajura, director of the National Research Center for Coal & Energy, for help in identifying the appropriate contacts at NETL, (304) 293-2867 x. 5401, Richard.Bajura@mail.wvu.edu.
For technical assistance, WVU researchers may contact Don McLaughlin at (304) 293-0405 x. 4258 or Don.McLaughlin@mail.wvu.edu or Frances Vanscoy at (304) 293-0405 x. 4181, fvanscoy@mix.wvu.edu.