Supercomputing @ MIT

If you know a cluster at MIT not on this list, let us know.

Also we are interested in collecting HPL benchmarks of clusters at MIT.

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Site Name Processors/Nodes Type Memory Interconnect Purpose Built/Hardware updated Maintained HPL benchmark
LCS Computer Architecture Group cagfarm 100/50 1GHz to 2.2Ghz P4 Xeons 2GB x 50 = 100GB Gigabit Ethernet Research ?? Tech Square Inc. 100 (estimate)
Parsons Laboratory (Building 48) daitr.mit.edu 84/42 Pentium 4, Xeon 84GB Myrinet and Ethernet Environmental data assimilation 2002 Internal to project + Aspen Systems remote support 100 (estimate)
LCS Computer Graphics Group - 1 photon 64/32/128 (HyperThreading) Intel Xeon 2.4GHz 80GB Gigabit Ethernet Research ?? Department sysadmin 100 (estimate)
LCS Computer Graphics Group - 2 tesserae 64/32 Intel P4 400MHz FSB 20GB Fast Ethernet Research ?? Department sysadmin 60 (estimate)
Materials Science, Building 13 lambic.mit.edu 60/30 Athlon 1900/Xeon 2.8/Alpha 833 2GB x 30 = 60GB Ethernet/ Myrinet First-principles calculations in materials/Teaching SMA5107 2000 Postdocs and Students 50 (estimate)
Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (E54) MITGCM Cluster 56/44 Pentium 4, 533MHz FSB 22GB (1066MHz RDRAM) Myrinet and Ethernet Climate Science 2002 Tech Square Inc.
CTP Lattice Group/ LNS lqcd.lns.mit.edu 48/12 Alpha EV67 666MHz 12GB Myrinet Research in LQCD 1998 Andrew Pochinsky 48 (estimate)
Laboratory for Nuclear Science ? 40/20 Pentium II @ 400 MHz 512MB x 20 = 10 GB Fast Ethernet Scientific Computing for LNS community 1998 J. Maynard Gelinas 17 (estimate)
Applied Mathematics heaviside 32/16 Athlon MP 2000+ 1GB x 16 = 16 GB Gigabit Ethernet Research in materials simulations, granular flows, electroosmosis, percolation, fractal growth, and other physical systems. Sept 2002 Department sysadmin 25 (estimate)
MIT Nuclear Engineering Department Echelon 30/30 Athlon 1700 1.1GHz OC 1.5GHz 0.5GB * 30 = 15GB PC2100 Fast Ethernet Monte Carlo N Particle code for reactor criticallity 2002 Graduate Student 25 (estimate)
Laboratory for Nuclear Science ? 20/20 Athlon 900 MHz 512MB x 20 = 10GB Fast Ethernet Scientific Computing for LNS community 2001 J. Maynard Gelinas
Materials Science, Building 13 armageddon 18/9 P4 Xeon 2.4 GHz 22 GB Ethernet Research for Materials Science SMA Faculty/SMA 5107 2002 Andrew Takahashi
Civil and Environmental Engineering codex-hammer 18/18 Athlon XP 1800 1GB x 18 = 18GB Fast Ethernet/Myrinet Simulation of granular media, distribution visualization, teaching ? ?
LCS Applied Computing Group beowulf.lcs 16/8 Athlon MP 1800+ 1GB x 8 = 8GB Fast Ethernet Research and Teaching 18.337/6.338/SMA5505 Jan 2002 Ron Choy 12 (estimate)
LCS Computer Graphics Group - 3 ?? 8 MIPS R10000/R12000 500MHz 6GB Fast Ethernet Research ?? Department sysadmin
LIDS Optical & Satellite Networking Group throbac.mit.edu 8/4 Athlon MP 2100+ 2GB x 4 = 8GB Fast Ethernet Research in Linear Programming, Optimization, Convex analysis, Network simulations Nov 2002 Departmental sysadmin/Grad Students 7 (esimate)


Talks/Classes/Links

The Singapore-MIT Alliance High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems (HPCES)
MIT Computationally Intensive Computing Discovery Project
Talk 2/24 Horst Simon of NERSC
18.337


Ron Choy
Alan Edelman

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