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IBM pSeries

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.
Overview A set of IBM pSeries shared memory systems for research computing is available to all University faculty members, 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
  • The pSeries 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.
Key Features
  • Access to a cluster of nine, 8-processor, shared memory IBM pSeries 655 machines
  • Usage and programming assistance from our system administrators and scientific programming staff
  • Useful for applications that can make use of up to eight processors in a shared memory environment
  • Power4 processors in an IBM AIX environment supporting IBM compilers and tools, in addition to open source and 3rd party licensed products
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.
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