High-Performance Computing and Communications

Among supercomputers in an academic setting, HPCC's new supercomputer cluster is the 7th fastest in the United States. Among all supercomputers in the world, it is ranked 76st. It claimed this distinction by achieving a benchmark in spring 2009 of 51.41 teraflops, or 51.41 trillion floating-point calculations per second, on its 856-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.

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HPCC Research		HPCC System Updates
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...		Node Upgrade On Monday, September 28th, 384 IBM iDataPlex dx340 systems were added to the cluster, replacing 342 Sun V60x. Each node is a quad core/dual processor 2.33gHz, with 16GB of memory.