For the past year, CoC has operated an advanced Instructional HPC cluster, named Jazz, for use in CSE courses in parallel/distributed algorithms, large-scale dataanalysis, multi-core programming, and other computing fields. Through the application of Georgia Tech Technology Fee grants, the College of Computing has added two, new high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, named the Hogwarts and Factor clusters. Faculty teaching courses in the Computational Science and Engineering(CSE) Division and the School of Computer Science (CS) may requestaccess to these HPC resources prior to the semester for their classprojects. These HPC resources are located in the College of ComputingBuilding Data Center.

The Hogwarts cluster is comprised of 6, dual-socket, Dell PowerEdge R710 servers, based on the quad-core Intel Nahalem processor (the X5570). Each node has 48GB of memory and 2TB of disk storage. Software features include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Hadoop (Map/Reduce), torque, maui and MPI. The cluster supports CSE Division courses requiring parallel and/or distributed compute jobs and/or medium- to large-scale data processing jobs.

The Factor cluster is comprised of 9, dual-socket, Dell PowerEdge R610 servers, based on the quad-core Intel Nahalem processor (the X5550). Each node has 48GB of memory and the cluster has a central file server with a total of 7TB of disk storage. The cluster runs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. The cluster will be used as a VM farm in support of School of CS courses in the areas of energy-aware, distributed, and multi-threaded programming, as well as linux kernel hacking.

For more details on these clusters, please refer to the Academic HPC Resources page.