Michigan Tech's shared high-performance computing infrastructure, Superior, is available to all researchers. It has the following computing and storage components:
- Generation 1.0 (acquired between 2013/06 - 2015/10)
- 1 storage node with 32 TB shared usable space
- Generation 2.0 (acquired between 2017/06 - 2018/08)
- 95 CPU compute nodes - each having 32 CPU cores (Intel Xeon E5-2683 2.10 GHz) and 256 GB RAM - providing 91 TFLOPS
Users may run cn_list-hardware-specs.sh from within a qlogin session for detailed information.
Portage is another shared high-performance computing infrastructure and a miniature version of Superior. Intended primarily for testing, educational (coursework and/or senior design projects), and gateway/preliminary research projects involving non-confidential/non-sponsored data, Portage has 3 TFLOPS of CPU computing capacity with hardware identical to Superior's generations 1.0 and 2.0.
Superior and Portage have a Gigabit Ethernet back-end network that serves administrative needs and a 56 Gb/s InfiniBand network that serves computing needs. They are available for all researchers at Michigan Tech via a brief proposal, very similar to NSF XSEDE.
Researchers can get help with hardware specification and acquisition, software acquisition and licensing, compilation, installation, integration with the queuing system, running benchmarks, developing computational workflows, and necessary end-user training.
Michigan Tech's Director of Research Computing Dr. Gowtham, serves as the NSF XSEDE Campus Champion. He has access to and trial allocations in several supercomputers around the country and will help researchers find an optimal external resource, if necessary.