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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:

  • News - press release
  • 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
  • Seminars - seminars provided by ITSC on high-performance computer usage
  • Technology - information on latest supercompter-related technology
  • HPC Sites - a list of high-performance computer related websites
  • Consultation - high performance computing support by ITSC functional team

Introduction to the three high-performance computers in ITSC

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

Orpin - Memory-intensive Computing Server
With the introduction of the Data-intensive computing server and Compute-intensive cluster, projects asking for huge memory resources are also entertained. In 2003, a Sun Fire 6800 SMP server was installed with sixteen 900 MHz superscalar SPARC V9 (UltraSPARC III) processors and 64GB RAM. Computing power of this server is 28.8 GFLOPS.
organon Organon - Scientific Computing Cluster
Organon aims at helping users who need the Linux Cluster for their research projects which are computation-intensive in nature. They are the Sun Fire V20z servers which will be launched in May 2006.
Click to enlarge Orlon - Computational Grid
Orlon is a Computational Grid ( CG ) which targets to serve computation-intensive research projects.

 

 

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