Computation

Overview	The Scientific Computing and Visualization group (SCV) provides a number of advanced, multiprocessor supercomputing systems for research computing. These systems are available to all University faculty, their students, and their collaborators for research and for educational use in courses related to computational science.
Available To	Students, Faculty, Researchers, External Research Collaborators, Industrial Partners
Benefits	Our supercomputing systems are available to the entire Boston University research community with no direct cost for the acquisition, maintenance, or use of the resource. Professional staff are available to help with the use of the systems and to provide programming assistance with serial and parallel applications. A broad set of software packages is available. The use of high-performance computing systems can dramatically reduce the time to obtain solutions for computationally intensive problems. High performance, high availability storage is shared across all of the systems, thereby reducing the time and complexity of data access.
Key Features	Access to a variety of parallel computing systems and storage including: massively parallel computing systems (e.g., a 1024-node IBM Blue Gene/L); large shared memory systems (e.g., IBM pSeries p655) (Note: This service will be retired and the IBM pSeries systems will be decommissioned on June 1, 2012. Follow the link for more details and please mail us if you have questions or need help with porting your code to the Katana cluster.); Linux clusters; broad set of open source and commercial scientific, mathematical, plotting, and other software packages; and large high-performance storage system (e.g., GPFS, a parallel file system) shared across all the platforms. Usage and programming assistance from our system administrators and scientific programming staff.
Requirements	Must be a member of a Scientific Computing Facilities (SCF) research project. BU faculty and full-time research staff are allowed to create SCF research projects and serve as Principal Investigators. Principal Investigators may add collaborators (students, researchers outside of BU, etc.) to their SCF research project.
Cost	No charge to the BU community. There is a charge to industrial partners.
Getting Started	Learn more about our facilities. Getting an account: BU faculty and full-time research staff Students and others