Dear Research Computing Community:
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.
The new thirty-two H200 chips combined offer over 2 PetaFLOPS performance (peak double-precision floating point operations per second) — expanding the overall computational power of our HPC cluster by more than 2.5 times! Our operating system upgrade allows researchers to run more modern versions of their software and automatically benefit from recent CPU and GPU hardware features.
The Research Computing team has created a number of educational resources to help our users take advantage of this enhancement.
This computational infrastructure enhancement is a reflection of the tireless effort of our Research Computing staff members who have worked on this challenging project over more than the past twelve months. This is the first major computing capability upgrade and modernization of our infrastructure in the last six years. Modernization of our HPC infrastructure significantly expands what our faculty, researchers, students, and staff can achieve now, and help us accelerate compute-intensive computational science applications.
I am very proud of the Research Computing staff members, and thank them for their dedicated effort toward helping us achieve this significant milestone.
We are very excited by the possibility of the new computational science, engineering, and humanics innovation this new infrastructure will enable.
Warmly,
…∂t
Devesh Tiwari
Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing
Office of the Provost
d.tiwari@northeastern.edu
https://coe.northeastern.edu/people/tiwari-devesh/
