Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer 83
Indiana University has replaced their supercomputer, Big Red, with a new system predictably named Big Red II. At the dedication HPC scientist Paul Messina said: "It's important that this is a university-owned resource. ... Here you have the opportunity to have your own faculty, staff and students get access with very little difficulty to this wonderful resource." From the article: "Big Red II is a Cray-built machine, which uses both GPU-enabled and standard CPU compute nodes to deliver a petaflop -- or 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second -- of max performance. Each of the 344 CPU nodes uses two 16-core AMD Abu Dhabi processors, while the 676 GPU nodes use one 16-core AMD Interlagos and one NVIDIA Kepler K20."
Biggest? Really? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Biggest? Really? (Score:2, Interesting)
How can you tell? In TFA, you just have a photo of one corner of the building.
Re:I have to question the wisdom of this (Score:4, Interesting)
Indiana University is not simply a university; it is a state school system with several regional campuses. Oddly enough, Purdue is Indiana's second state school system with its own regional campuses. They both share a campus at IUPUI (Indianapolis). I'd be very surprised if there is any free time left for this. And if there is, IU would likely just lease it to Purdue.
All in all, it is probably cost effective for them to do this. They are unlikely to have made this decision in a vacuum; they are well aware of the alternatives. (I'm an IU alum).