{"id":3337,"date":"2012-09-14T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2020-03-18T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:03:40","slug":"umassbumitneu-team-wins-1-6m-high-performance-computing-infrastructure-grant-from-nsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2012\/09\/14\/umassbumitneu-team-wins-1-6m-high-performance-computing-infrastructure-grant-from-nsf\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass\/BU\/MIT\/NEU Team Wins $1.6M High Performance Computing Infrastructure grant from NSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $1.6M multi-university NSF grant has been awarded to support high<br \/>\nperformance computing research.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will fund the purchase of a hybrid computing cluster that will<br \/>\ncombine high-performance computing CPU power with GPU accelerators. The<br \/>\ncluster will be connected by dedicated 10 gigabit optical links to each of<br \/>\nthe partner universities in a regional consortium that brings together<br \/>\nresearchers from BU, MIT, Northeastern University, the University of<br \/>\nMassachusetts campuses, and VMware. The system will be housed at the new<br \/>\nstate-of-the-art high performance computing center in Holyoke,<br \/>\nMassachusetts operated by the Massachusetts Green High Performance<br \/>\nComputing Center (MGHPCC). The new computing environment is intended to<br \/>\nprovide a bridge between high-end HPC practitioners, computer scientists<br \/>\nand science domain experts amongst faculty, post-doctoral, graduate and<br \/>\nundergraduate populations in the consortium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1229059\">MRI Consortium: Acquisition of a Heterogeneous, Shared, Computing Instrument to Enable Science and Computing Research by the Mass. Green High Performance Computing Consortium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BU Team of investigators includes Claudio Rebbi (co-PI, Physics),<br \/>\nJonathan Appavoo (CS), Lorena Barba (Mechanical Engineering), Azer<br \/>\nBestavros (CS), Rich Brower (ECE and Physics), Mark Friedl (Earth and<br \/>\nEnvironment), Roscoe Giles (ECE and Physics), Anders Sandvik (Physics),<br \/>\nSandor Vajda (Biomedical Engineering), and Curtis Woodcock (Earth and<br \/>\nEnvironment).<\/p>\n<p>This major research instrumentation will be available through the auspices<br \/>\nof the BU Center for Computational Science, the Scientific Computing and<br \/>\nVisualization Group, and the Hariri Institute for Computing and<br \/>\nComputational Science &amp; Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the whole team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $1.6M multi-university NSF grant has been awarded to support high performance computing research. The grant will fund the purchase of a hybrid computing cluster that will combine high-performance computing CPU power with GPU accelerators. The cluster will be connected by dedicated 10 gigabit optical links to each of the partner universities in a regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}