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Research Computing

In the early nineties, ITSC recognized that the University had reached the stage where a supercomputer was crucial to the success of research projects. An Research Computing Team was then formed in 1995 to respond the demand of high performance computing environment raised by the University researchers.

Here shows the content of this section:

  • Facilities and Services - the bioinformatics service and a comparison of the three high-performance computers
  • Policies and Guidelines - Job Scheduling Policies and Guidelines for HPC servers
  • Research Projects - examples of completed research projects
  • Technology - information on latest supercompter-related technology
  • HPC Sites - a list of high-performance computer related websites
  • Downloads - a collection of high-performance computing software can be found
  • Consultation - high performance computing support by ITSC functional team

Introduction to the high-performance computers in ITSC

The high-performance computing platforms play as a versatile role in facilitating research users and sustaining a fast, reliable problem-solving engine.

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Orion - Computation and data intensive Server
Orion was launched at the end of 2008. It has 222 processing cores and around 2TFLOPS computing power. The system is targeted for handling both data and computation intensive projects.

 

 

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