HPC MSU

Computing Overview of the HPC²

The HPC² provides substantial high performance computing resources for use by its member centers, including a 10-teraflop 2048 processor AMD Opteron cluster, a 384 processor Intel Xeon cluster with InfiniBand interconnect, a 1038 processor Intel Pentium III cluster, a 512 processor SGI ORIGIN 3900, a 128 processor SGI ORIGIN 3800, a 64 processor SGI ORIGIN 3800, a 64 processor Sun UltraSPARC cluster, and numerous additional special purpose machines. Data storage capabilities include a 150 terabyte high performance disk system and a 2 petabyte near-line storage system. The HPC²'s high-end visualization needs are met by an immersive reconfigurable CAVE virtual reality environment, two SGI Onyx2 graphics servers, and a 20 node visualization cluster. An access grid node allows for state-of-the-art video teleconferencing and remote collaboration.

The HPC² network infrastructure backbone consists of both 10-Gigabit Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, with an extensive Gigabit Ethernet network for desktop connectivity. Internet connectivity is provided via a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Mississippi State University campus backbone. Campus connectivity to the Internet at large is via a 1 Gigabit connection. Mississippi State University is a charter member of the Internet2 Consortium, and currently utilizes a 1 Gigabit connection to the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) regional network for connectivity to Internet2/Newnet and the National LambdaRail (NLR). The installation of a 10 Gigabit connection to NLR is currently underway.