{"id":159696,"date":"2022-05-24T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=159696"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:00:43","slug":"400k-high-performance-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/24\/400k-high-performance-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"$400K grant to speed high-performance computing, advance research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Installation of computational equipment for Mana HPC<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A second high-performance computing (HPC<\/abbr>) cluster at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has been seeded with a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant. Much like the existing HPC<\/abbr>, Mana<\/a>, the new cluster called Koa will serve as a free inter-campus resource for advancing research in such areas as astronomy, chemistry, oceanography, bioinformatics and data science.<\/p>\n

“We are excited about the capacity that Koa will bring the existing computational resource specifically the increase in throughput the new high speed storage system will provide speed-up across existing and new hardware as well as the ability for transferring and processing larger datasets,” said Sean Cleveland<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Information Technology Services<\/a> (ITS<\/abbr>) cyberinfrastructure senior project manager and principal investigator. “We look forward to enhancing scientific workflows with our science partners in the Institute for Astronomy and the departments of Information and Computer Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences for some targeted, larger datasets and model simulations projects to push science and research forward at UH<\/abbr>.”<\/p>\n

Computational performance boost<\/h2>\n

The deployment of Koa will bring 750 terabytes of high-speed storage, eight computational nodes with (48 cores, 256 GB of memory) and two compute nodes that provide another 20 graphics processing units with newer architectures to support machine learning and deep learning workflows.<\/p>\n

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ITS<\/abbr> Data Center<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n
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NASA image of extreme ultraviolet composite image of the Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

The new high speed storage infrastructure will integrate with the existing Mana HPC<\/abbr> to decrease the runtime for many workloads impacted by read and write speeds and significantly increase Mana\u2019s computational throughput.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re grateful for the National Science Foundation support to further expand and enhance our institutional HPC<\/abbr> resources,” said Garret Yoshimi<\/strong>, ITS<\/abbr> vice president for information technology and chief information officer. “The addition of Koa to our Mana HPC<\/abbr> foundation will help us increase the depth and breadth of support for high performance data analytics, AI (artificial intelligence) and visualization efforts to our diverse community of researchers and students. Elimination of the historically high cost of entry to HPC<\/abbr> assets is critical to ensure that our community can build on the benefits of leading edge technologies that will support future discoveries and innovation.“<\/p>\n

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