High-Performance Computing and Communications

Among supercomputers in an academic setting, HPCC's supercomputer cluster is the 7th fastest in the United States. Among all supercomputers in the world, it is ranked 79th. It claimed this distinction by achieving a benchmark in Fall 2011 of 149.9 teraflops, or 149.9 trillion floating-point calculations per second, on its 2,225-node, 10-gigabit backbone cluster.

HPCC comprises a diverse mix of computing and data resources. Two Linux clusters constitute the principal computing resource. In addition, HPCC has a central facility that provides more than 400 terabytes of combined disk storage and potential access to nearly a petabyte of tape storage, as well as a Condor cluster that uses spare cycles on UNIX workstations and PCs in USC's general-access computing rooms.

Upcoming HPCC Downtimes

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Adventures in Technology

A series of informational presentations hosted by Information Technology Services (ITS) Customer Support Center (CSC). Presentations are designed to help USC students, staff and faculty get the most out of the computing resources provided by ITS. The site is regularly updated with new session information, so check back often. adventure

HPCC Research		HPCC System Updates
Theodore W. Berger Large-Scale Hippocampal Model More... David Conti Statistical Methods Development in Genetic Epidemiology More... Ken-ichi Nomura and Weiqiang Wang Applying Parallel Molecular Dynamics Algorithms to Million-to-Billion Atom Simulations More... Michelle Povinelli Slow Light in Photonic Crystals More... Thieo Hogen-Esch Elucidation of the mechanisms of the Yamamoto polymerizations More... James Knowles and Peter Laird Analysis of DNA sequences generated with next-gen technology More... John O'Brien Active and passive nanophtonic integrated circuit components More... Thomas Jordan Using seismic tomography to help reduce earthquake risks More... Carl Kesselman Middleware guru and grid pioneer More... Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu Statistical approach to natural language translation More... Aiichiro Nakano and Ashish Sharma Large-scale scientific visualization More... Priya Vashishta Multi-teraflop supercomputing More... Arieh Warshel Computer simulation of biological processes More... Richard Weinberg Computer animation and visual effects More...		No Scheduled Downtimes