Modern academic research runs on computational power—and in today’s research labs, central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) are critical pieces in a scientist’s workbench.
So with funding secured through the WARF investment, CHTC began executing a major hardware refresh this summer, adding 207 new servers representing over 40,000 “batch slots” of computing capacity. The task of translating this investment into operational computing capacity was assigned to Brian Bockelman, a Morgridge Institute for Research investigator, and his team. Under his leadership, most of these servers are already available to CHTC users.
That means more CPUs, more GPUs, more memory—and, in essence, more computing power.
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