High-Performance Computing
For about a quarter century, SDSC has operated a wide range of allocated computational resources, and continues to make leading-edge resources available to the UCSD and broader UC community, in addition to others in academia and industry. To help researchers run on today's high-performance systems, SDSC experts guide users through a smooth transition from campus clusters to the center's high-performance computing environment, reducing time to results and taking science to the next level.
SDSC is now home to the Triton Resource, a new triple-threat machine that offers data-intensive computing ( PDAF ), a compute cluster ( TCC ), and multi-petabytes of disk storage (to come on line in the fall of 2009). UCSD/UC researchers are the primary customers for the Triton Resource, made available through the Triton Affiliates and Partners Program (TAPP), although others in academia, industry and government also will be offered access.
SDSC also is a founding partner of the TeraGrid, which integrates high-performance computers, data resources and other tools at 11 partner sites, creating the world's most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. SDSC will begin offering allocations to Dash, a unique, large-memory resource featuring solid-state disk drives that will significantly reduce latency times for faster computations across a wide range of data-intensive research. This new system marks the first use of Intel's Nehalem processors within TeraGrid.
University of California researchers can gain special access to SDSC's OnDemand supercomputer. This platform features Star-P software, which provides a link between Matlab tools on the client-side and the high-performance parallel resource at SDSC.
UC San Diego departments and research projects across campus rely on the expertise and infrastructure of SDSC to enhance their capabilities and efficiency. By partnering with SDSC for cyberinfrastructure services, campus partners are able to leverage SDSC's economies-of-scale, high-quality services, and in-depth knowledge to further their own research and productivity.
For more information about SDSC's services, contact services@sdsc.edu
