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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Erin Munro
- Zachary.Munro
Erin Munro is studying Computational Neuroscience in the Math department. Her research consists of doing MANY simulations. That being said, she would not be able to do this research without the cluster! She simulates networks of thousands of neurons interacting. While there are some simulations that take a few minutes, the majority of them take 45 minutes to an 1.5 hours on one node. The last time she calculated, she'd like to run over a month's worth of these simulations. On top of this, she has run several very important simulations that take 1.5 days on 16 nodes. She had to run these simulations in order to try to reproduce results from Roger Traub's research. Her current project is to try to explain these results. They tried to find a simpler way to explain them without reproducing the full model, but they found that they couldn't do it. With the cluster, she has been able to reproduce the results to the best of her ability. Furthermore, she has been able to dissect the model, and run many more simulations to get a much better understanding of what is going on in his results. She feels like she is coming close to fully explaining the results, and have just presented a talk at BU explaining her ideas. None of this would have been possible without the cluster.
For additional information, please contact Research Technology Services at tts-research@tufts.edu