University of Florida
High-Performance Computing Center
News
05/13/08: RAID Inc., the provider for the storage behind the /scratch/crn filesystem, issued a press release regarding the storage sharing demonstration between the UF HPC Center and Florida International University. In that demonstration, the /scratch/crn filesystem was mounted by clients at FIU over the high-speed network provided by the Florida Lambda Rail, and high-energy physics analyses were performed. The press release can be found here.
03/04/08: Throughputs over 2 GB/s have been achieved across the campus research network to the /scratch/crn filesystem.
02/22/08: A new 81TB Lustre filesystem, /scratch/crn, is now online.
02/20/08: The second user feedback meeting is now scheduled for Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 2pm. Immediately following the feedback meeting we will be holding a new user primer for those users that would like to ask questions about the system.
10/10/07: The first User Feedback Meeting will be held Friday, October 19th, 2007 from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in NPB 2205.
7/30/07: July shutdown news
5/16/07: The UF HPC Center will be giving a short presentation on the hardware used at the Center at the Gator Linux User Group meeting in Gainesville. For more information, visit the GatorLUG website.
4/16/07: The UF HPC Center was a finalist for the Best Practices in Storage award in Innovation and Promise at the Storage Networking World Conference in San Diego.
11/15/06: SuperComputing Online has an article about our grid research and cooperation with Cisco. The article can be read here .
11/14/06: Cisco has made a press release concerning the UF High Performance Computing Center and our work towards a campus-wide computing grid. The article can also be read at the Cisco Newsroom website.
11/14/06: The UF High Performance Computing Center is presenting at Super Computing 2006, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage.
11/9/06: Our work with the Obsidian Longbow high performance Infiniband network extensions has been announced at University of Florida News
9/8/06: Rackable eases power and cooling issues in UF HPC server room, as announced in HPCwire.com
9/6/06: We have been announced in the UF Office of Information Technology Newsletter. It can be read here.
5/15/06: Our final submission for the Top 500 SuperComputer Sites has been made. More details can be found here.
4/27/06: UF HPC Day 2006 was a success! For those that missed it, you can view the slides from the presentation here.
3/10/06: UF HPC Day 2006 Announced. Details can be found here.
