High performance computing resources
available at East Carolina University

East Carolina University continues the renaissance in high-performance computing (HPC) with hardware and software solutions specifically optimized for complex technical research computing tasks. The independent, modular scalability of CPUs, I/O bandwidth, system bandwidth, memory, storage, and graphics combine together to provide ECU researchers and educators with HPC resources needed to explore the leading-edge problems of the 21st century.

ECU has nearly 1 teraflop of shared memory computing power available to its computational community. The HPC computational resources available for ECU educators and researchers are

• 32 processor SGI Origin 350. A complete description of this resource can be found here. The SGI Origin 350 was funded in part by a Major Research Instrumentation Grant from the National Science Foundation.
• 128 processor SGI Altix 4700 cluster. The SGI Altix 4700 was funded in part by a Major Research Instrumentation Grant from the National Science Foundation.
• a brief description of the application software available on the SGI Origin 350 and/or SGI Altix 4700 can be found here.
• Scientific support can be obtained from the CACS fellows
• some useful links on how to run application software and how to use UNIX and LSF and can be found here.
• workshops and tutorials for some of the application software can be found at the CACS Tutorials link.
• a state-of-the-art undergraduate computational chemstry training facility is available in the chemistry department. This facility consists of 10 personal computers and 14 SGI Fuel workstations, which were funded by student fees. A wide variety of application software is available on all systems. For the life sciences, Accelrys has kindly provided its Discover Studio suite of programs.

The HPC visualization resources available for ECU educators and researchers are

• an 8 processor SGI Prism. A complete description of this resource can be found here

ECU researchers and educators wishing to get an account on the SGI Origin 350 may do so at: "User Accounts"