by U-M MICDE | Oct 16, 2018 | Flux, General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
The University of Michigan has selected Dell EMC as lead vendor to supply its new $4.8 million Great Lakes computing cluster, which will serve researchers across campus. Mellanox Technologies will provide networking solutions, and DDN will supply storage hardware....
by U-M MICDE | Sep 26, 2018 | General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) is seeking pilot users for two new research storage services. The first, Locker, is group project storage focused on large data sets, and is available at a cost less than half that of current primary...
by U-M MICDE | Apr 18, 2018 | Flux, Happenings, HPC, News
Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) is starting the process of creating a new, campus-wide computing cluster, “Great Lakes,” that will serve the broad needs of researchers across the University. Over time, Great Lakes will replace Flux,...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 6, 2018 | General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
ARC-TS has installed 15 new compute nodes into the ConFlux cluster. These nodes have the same 20 cores CPU as the original set, but with 256 GB of RAM instead of 128 GB. Neither the original nodes nor the newly added ones contain any GPUs As a result, jobs should...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 6, 2018 | Educational, Events, General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
A series of training workshops in high performance computing will be held Feb. 12 through March 6, 2018, presented by CSCAR in conjunction with Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS). Introduction to the Linux command Line This course will...
by U-M MICDE | Dec 15, 2017 | General Interest, HPC, News, Research
Research using machine learning and artificial intelligence — tools that allow computers to learn about and predict outcomes from massive datasets — has been booming at the University of Michigan. The potential societal benefits being explored on campus are numerous,...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 27, 2017 | General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
Several University of Michigan researchers and professional IT staff attended the Supercomputing 17 (SC17) conference in Denver from Nov. 12-17, participating in a number of different ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials. U-M participation...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 7, 2017 | Feature, General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
A new partnership between the University of Michigan and Cavium Inc., a San Jose-based provider of semiconductor products, will create a powerful new Big Data computing cluster available to all U-M researchers. The $3.5 million ThunderX computing cluster will enable...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 1, 2017 | Data, Educational, Flux, General Interest, HPC, News
CSCAR now provides walk-in support during business hours for students, faculty, and staff seeking assistance in getting started with the Flux computing environment. CSCAR consultants can walk a researcher through the steps of applying for a Flux account, installing...
by U-M MICDE | Sep 28, 2017 | Happenings, HPC, Uncategorized
Shannon Moran, a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Chemical Engineering, has won a 2017 SIGHPC Intel Fellowship. Shannon is a member of the Glotzer Group. They use computer simulation to discover the fundamental principles of how nanoscale systems of building...
