High Performance Computing

The Texas A&M Supercomputing Facility aids faculty involved in large-scale computation. Current computing capacity mainly consists of a 6.3-TFLOPS, 832-cores IBM p575 cluster. In the near future, the facility will be adding a new 27+ TFLOPS Linux-based x86 computing cluster to accommodate the increasing demand for scientific computation on campus.

The facility provides a staff of expert analysts, help desk technical support, and unique short course classes. It maintains state-of-the-art commercial and open-source HPC software, such as ABAQUS, ANSYS, Hyperworks, LS_DYNA, Matlab, Star-CD, TotalView, and WRF (visit http://sc.tamu.edu/software/ for details). The staff assists users in optimizing and tailoring their applications to make best use of the computing resources. Typical support includes code optimization, tuning, and parallelization for complex shared memory and message passing applications.

The Supercomputing Facility represents Texas A&M at the High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT) consortium and supports its development of a computational grid that integrates computing systems, storage systems and databases, visualization laboratories and displays, and even instruments and sensors across Texas.

More information, including obtaining and setting up accounts, can be found at the Supercomputing web site.