{"id":59035,"date":"2012-09-21T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?p=59035"},"modified":"2012-09-21T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:38:15","slug":"new-teraflops-gpu-cluster-facility-at-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/2012\/09\/21\/new-teraflops-gpu-cluster-facility-at-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"New teraflop\/s GPU cluster facility at Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s College of Engineering, the Center for Computational Science (CCS), Information Systems &amp; Technology (IS&amp;T) and the Bioinformatics Program are introducing a significant expansion to the facilities for research\u00a0computing with the acquisition of a 160 GPU-accelerated cluster. At 80 teraflop\/s in peak double-precision performance, this system will be the fastest ever deployed at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>The new computing resource was made possible by the investment of IS&amp;T funds, a contribution from the CCS and a donation by Hewlett Packard of the 160 GPU cards, valued at $320,000.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on the GPU@BU blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/gpu\/2012\/09\/21\/new-teraflops-gpu-cluster-facility-at-bu\/\">New teraflop\/s GPU cluster facility at BU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s College of Engineering, the Center for Computational Science (CCS), Information Systems &amp; Technology (IS&amp;T) and the Bioinformatics Program are introducing a significant expansion to the facilities for research\u00a0computing with the acquisition of a 160 GPU-accelerated cluster. At 80 teraflop\/s in peak double-precision performance, this system will be the fastest ever deployed at Boston&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59039,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035\/revisions\/59039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}