HiPerSys Computational Resources

The High Performance Systems Research Group has access to a varied set of computational resources at the DoD HPCMO, The University of Texas at El Paso (including the AHPCRC Chimera heterogeneous cluster), and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. In December 2011 the AHPCRC Griffin heterogeneous cluster, comprised of AMD Interlagos multi-cores and Fermi GPUs, will be added to the group's high-performance computing resources.

Chimera - AHPCRC Heterogeneous Cluster

Chimera has four partitions comprised of:

• Opteron quad-cores with nVidia accelerators,
• Opteron quad-cores with FPGA accelerators,
• PS3s, and
• Sun Niagaras

For a technical description click here.

Griffin - AHPCRC Heterogeneous Cluster

Griffin is comprised of 8 AMD dual 8-core Interlagos 6220 3GHz processors and "dual" nVidia Fermi GPUs, model M2090 (each with 6"4"GB memory " and a local 500GB drive"). This system, which will be "operational" in late Spring 2012, will have a head node with 256GB memory and 4TB disk storage.

These clusters, which at the time of delivery represented state-of-the-art, emerging processor technologies that will be used in both workstations and high-end computing platforms, are required for us to meet our planned project objectives. For a technical description click here.

Research Modules - Pegasus, a GPU "Adventure Playground"

Currently we have one research module, an AMD Opteron quad-core coupled with an nVida Fermi GPU. In December 2011 we will receive five new modules, which represent the newest in emerging process technologies, e.g., the AMD ATI FirePro graphics accelerator, AMD Interlagos 6238 12-core 2.6GHz processor, nVidia Fermi GPU model C2075 with 6GB memory, AMD Interlagos 6272 16-core 2.1 GHz processor, Celeron ION-ITX, AMD ATI HD-6990 4GB GPU, Xeon E3-1250L low-power 45W 2.4GHz Sandy Bridge processor, AMD A8-3850 APU, and AMD Interlagos 6220 8-core 3.0GHz processor.