The Tufts High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster delivers 35,845,920 cpu hours and 59,427,840 gpu hours of free compute time per year to the user community.
Teraflops: 60+ (60+ trillion floating point operations per second) cpu: 4000 cores gpu: 6784 cores Interconnect: 40GB low latency ethernet
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Kyle Monahan
- Delilah Maloney
As a part of Kyle Monahan's MS research in the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department, he reproduced an agent-based model of water sanitation and hygiene in South Africa. He used the cluster in order to model diarrheal disease in children within over 400 households, over the course of 730 days. The model was iterated 100 times for a total of seven experiments using the program Netlogo, and would have been unlikely to complete without the computational resources of the cluster, as 240 CPU cores and 64GB of RAM were used to create over 6 TB of model data, which was further processed in Stata and R for a total of 720,000 CPU hours. This research was enabled by a great research team in CEE and the cluster resources in Research Technology.
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