Research Computing, HPC

Our supercomputer is nicknamed the Cardinal Research Cluster (CRC). The CRC is an IBM iDataPlex cluster-style supercomputer that performs high-speed processing. This is particularly useful for analyzing complex and expansive data sets that would be too cumbersome for a lesser computer, such as those for medical research.

This cluster includes a general-purpose, high-performance distributed-memory cluster (with fourteen GPGPU nodes), five high-memory SMP systems, and an informatics cluster. The general-purpose cluster has an estimated peak performance of more than 40 teraflops.

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• The cluster has 530 IBM iDataplex nodes, 312 of which are equipped with two Intel Xeon L5420 2.5GHz quad-core processors and 218 of which are equipped with two Intel Xeon 5650 2.66GHz hexa-core processors for a total of 5112 processor cores.  

• Each node has between 16 and 48 GB of memory (2GB to 4GB per core), and the node interconnects are a mixture of low-latency, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 Gbps), Gigabit Ethernet (1Gbps) and InfiniBand (16 Gbps) technology. 

• Fourteen of the iDataplex nodes are equipped with dual NVIDIA M2050 or M2070 GPGPU cards.  

• Four of the high-memory systems each have 32 3.3GHz CPUs, 8 TB of high-speed, dedicated scratch disk and 768GB of RAM. One high-memory system has 128GB of RAM and 16 4.7GHz IBM Power6 CPUs.

• The four-node, dedicated Spark/Hadoop informatics cluster has 50 TB of high-performance storage for high-reliability big data applications.

• All research systems share approximately 400 TB of data storage and scratch space based on IBM's General Purpose File System (GPFS).

Softwares

A variety of commercial and open-source software is available to facilitate computational research at the University of Louisville. Software for bioinformatics, computational chemistry, fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, quantum physics and chemistry, and solid mechanics is available.

Following are list of few software which we generally use for our research.

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1. Gaussian 09

2. Gaussian 16

3. Gamess

4. PC gamess

5. NWChem

6. Amber 12

7. Amber 16

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For more detail visit UofL IT page.