Research Computing at Northeastern University
Connecting the research community at Northeastern University with high performance computing solutions.
Research Computing Announcements:
All About Explorer and the New H200 GPUs
The Research Computing (RC) Team is excited to announce the new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, “Explorer,” which will supersede the current Discovery Cluster.
The Discovery HPC cluster has served the Northeastern University community extremely well over the last several years, and the Explorer Cluster will chart the path of a new journey in research and learning for the Northeastern community — with a new, more efficient operating system (Rocky Linux 9.3) and state-of-the-art GPU resources for compute-intensive computational science applications (NVIDIA H200).
MGHPCC Annual Shutdown Monday, June 2 – Thursday, June 5
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) will be conducting its annual shutdown for maintenance work on Tuesday, June 3. To prepare for that maintenance, RC will be shutting down all services from Monday, June 2 until Thursday, June 5. Research Computing’s servers and services are physically located at MGHPCC and are included in this shutdown, along with the high performance cluster systems of Harvard, Boston University, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. All RC-managed services will be powered down starting at 6 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 2. We are currently anticipating that RC-managed services will be powered back on Thursday, June 5, given that all work is completed in a timely manner. For more information, review the full announcement.
Open Position
Executive Director, Research Computing
The Executive Director, Northeastern Research Computing is responsible for the development and delivery of high-performance computing infrastructure and capabilities to Northeastern researchers, teaching faculty, and students throughout the university’s global network. Under the direction of Northeastern Office of the Provost, and in consultation with researchers, the executive director enables innovation through development of leading-edge capabilities and delivery of strong, faculty and student centered, efficient support for established research computing functions.
Learn About Discovery
Discovery is a high performance computing (HPC) resource for the Northeastern University research community. The Discovery cluster is located in the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA. MGHPCC is a 90,000 square-foot, 15 megawatt research computing and data center facility that houses computing resources for five institutions: Northeastern, BU, Harvard, MIT, and UMass.
The Discovery cluster provides access to over 50,000 CPU cores and over 525 GPUs to all Northeastern faculty and students free of charge. Hardware currently available for research consists of a combination of Intel Xeon (Cascadelake, Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell, Sandybridge, and Ivybridge) and AMD (Zen, Zen2) CPU microarchitectures. Additionally, a selection of NVIDIA Pascal (P100), Volta (V100), Turing (T4), Ampere (A100), and Hopper (H100) GPUs. Discovery is connected to the university network over 10 Gbps Ethernet (GbE) for high-speed data transfer, and Discovery provides 6 PB of available storage on a high-performance file system. Compute nodes are connected with either 10 GbE or high data rate InfiniBand (200 Gbps or 100 Gbps), supporting all types and scales of computational workloads.
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Connecting You to the Power of Discovery
As a researcher at Northeastern University, you can take advantage of the comprehensive research computing offerings and services available to you—including access to centralized high performance computing (HPC) clusters, storage, visualization, software, high-level technical and scientific consultations, documentation, and training.
Research Computing Office Hours
RC Office Hours are a great way for you to connect with the RC team for short (~10-15 min) consultations. Office Hours are held every Wednesday from 3 – 4 p.m. ET and Thursday from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET. All current or prospective Discovery users are welcome to join anytime during these hours.
Research Computing News at Northeastern
From the AVP
Research Computing Infrastructure Enhancements: Letter from the AVP
As announced in our prior RC communications and April monthly newsletter, we are excited to share with you that our Research Computing team has significantly enhanced and modernized our computing infrastructure -- our new cluster, Explorer, has added 32 state-of-the-art NVIDIA H200 GPU chips and runs on a new, more modern operating system.
Researcher Spotlight
RC Spring Researcher Spotlight Series: David Kaeli
David Kaeli joined Northeastern in 1993, after spending 12 years at IBM, with 7 years at the T.J. Watson Research Center. He is a COE Distinguished Professor for the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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