A PetaFLOPS supercomputer as a campus resource: Innovation, impact, and models for locally-owned high performance computing at research colleges and universities

Abhinav Thota; Ben Fulton; Le Mai Weakley; Robert Henschel; David Hancock; Matt Allen; Jenett Tillotson; Matt Link; Craig A. Stewart

doi:10.1145/2974927.2974956

A PetaFLOPS supercomputer as a campus resource: Innovation, impact, and models for locally-owned high performance computing at research colleges and universities

Abhinav Thota
, Ben Fulton
, Le Mai Weakley
, Robert Henschel
, David Hancock
, Matt Allen
, Jenett Tillotson
, Matt Link
, Craig A. Stewart

Indiana University Bloomington

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5 Scopus citations

Abstract

In 1997, Indiana University (IU) began a purposeful and steady drive to expand the use of supercomputers and what we now call cyberinfrastructure. In 2001, IU implemented the first 1 TFLOPS supercomputer owned by and operated for a single US University. In 2013, IU made an analogous investment and achievement at the 1 PFLOPS level: Big Red II, a Cray XE6/XK7, was the first supercomputer capable of 1 PFLOPS (theoretical) performance that was a dedicated university resource [2]. IU0s high performance computing (HPC) resources have fostered innovation in disciplines from biology to chemistry to medicine. Currently, 185 disciplines and sub disciplines are represented on Big Red II with a wide variety of usage needs. Quantitative data suggest that investment in this supercomputer has been a good value to IU in terms of academic achievement and federal grant income. Here we will discuss how investment in Big Red II has benefited IU, and argue that locally-owned computational resources (scaled appropriately to needs and budgets) may be of benefit to many colleges and universities. We will also discuss software tools under development that will aid others in quantifying the benefit of investment in high performance computing to their campuses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIGUCCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	61-68
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450340953
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2974927.2974956
State	Published - Nov 1 2016
Event	44th Annual ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services Conference, SIGUCCS 2016 - Denver, United States Duration: Nov 6 2016 → Nov 9 2016

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Name	Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference
Volume	06-09-November-2016

Conference

Conference	44th Annual ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services Conference, SIGUCCS 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	11/6/16 → 11/9/16

Keywords

HPC
Impact
Innovation
Petaops
Supercomputing
University
Value, analytics

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Thota, A., Fulton, B., Weakley, L. M., Henschel, R., Hancock, D., Allen, M., Tillotson, J., Link, M., & Stewart, C. A. (2016). A PetaFLOPS supercomputer as a campus resource: Innovation, impact, and models for locally-owned high performance computing at research colleges and universities. In SIGUCCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference (pp. 61-68). (Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference; Vol. 06-09-November-2016). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2974927.2974956

Thota, Abhinav ; Fulton, Ben ; Weakley, Le Mai et al. / A PetaFLOPS supercomputer as a campus resource : Innovation, impact, and models for locally-owned high performance computing at research colleges and universities. SIGUCCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. pp. 61-68 (Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference).

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A PetaFLOPS supercomputer as a campus resource: Innovation, impact, and models for locally-owned high performance computing at research colleges and universities. / Thota, Abhinav; Fulton, Ben; Weakley, Le Mai et al.
SIGUCCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 61-68 (Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference; Vol. 06-09-November-2016).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Thota A, Fulton B, Weakley LM, Henschel R, Hancock D, Allen M et al. A PetaFLOPS supercomputer as a campus resource: Innovation, impact, and models for locally-owned high performance computing at research colleges and universities. In SIGUCCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference. Association for Computing Machinery. 2016. p. 61-68. (Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference). doi: 10.1145/2974927.2974956

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