{"id":128120,"date":"2020-10-01T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=128120"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:46:29","slug":"hidsi-mana-computing-power-boosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/01\/hidsi-mana-computing-power-boosted\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> boosts research computing power with arrival of new equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Mana, the UH<\/abbr> high performance computing cluster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Data Science Institute<\/a> (HIDSI<\/abbr>) recently received the first of three shipments of equipment that will add advanced computing resources to Mana, the high performance computing (HPC<\/abbr>) cluster<\/a> that serves all 10 UH<\/abbr> campuses.<\/p>\n

The three servers and 24 central processing unit (CPU<\/abbr>) nodes delivered from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE<\/abbr>) total 1,104 CPU<\/abbr> cores and 24 graphics processing units (GPUs<\/abbr>). Currently, 30 nodes have been installed, and initial testing is taking place.<\/p>\n

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New equipment for Mana is installed in the ITS<\/abbr> Data Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The equipment was funded by the National Science Foundation\u2019s Major Research Instrumentation<\/a> (NSF MRI<\/abbr>) award program, which provides support to acquire instrumentation necessary for advances in fundamental science and engineering research.<\/p>\n

“We are thankful that this NSF MRI<\/abbr> award has enabled us to add significant, state-of-the-art capacity to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s Mana HPC<\/abbr> cluster,” said Vice President for Information Technology and CIO<\/abbr> Garret Yoshimi<\/strong>. “The enhanced and expanded capacity will allow us to better serve our community of researchers, together with their global partners, as they take on the challenges of our modern world.”<\/p>\n

The 1,200% increase of GPUs<\/abbr> allows for a variety of applications, including machine learning, data science and molecular dynamics. The CPU<\/abbr> core count has also increased by 29% from the existing 3,820 core community nodes which support high throughput computation. The new resources are networked with the latest generation of high dynamic range Infiniband and supports multi-node message passing interface applications.<\/p>\n

The second shipment of equipment will include Cray ClusterStor E1000, an all flash storage system running the Lustre parallel file system with 92 terabytes of raw capacity. This equipment will provide faster, high performance computing storage, suitable for the unique storage demands of artificial intelligence and machine learning. According to HPE<\/abbr>, one Cray ClusterStor E1000 rack could download all movies on Netflix U.S.<\/abbr> in 20 seconds, and complete one input\/output operation for every person in Texas in 1 second.<\/p>\n

Mana\u2019s new HPC<\/abbr> resources are anticipated to be available to the UH<\/abbr> community as early as November 1. Updates on the status of Mana\u2019s new equipment are made regularly at the HIDSI<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Maria E. Dumanlang<\/em><\/p>\n