High Performance Computing (HPC)

XSEDE Supercomputing Allocations

XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. QCL has two Campus Champions who are trained to help local users utilize supercomputing resources available through the XSEDE program. QCL awarded over 350,000 Service Units (SUs) from various national supercomputing facilities. The Service Unit (SU) is like a currency used to run an application on supercomputers. Supercomputer users are charged by SUs (hours of runtime on one core). For example, if an application ran on 100 cores for 10 hours, 1,000 SUs will be deducted from your account.

The Campus Champion allocations can be used to test computational research applications. To test out the supercomputers, please make an appointment with one of the Campus Champions (email: theqcl@cmc.edu).

NVIDIA GPGPU Machine

A GPGPU (General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit) machine is a high performance computer system equipped with one or more GPUs. QCL has an NVIDIA DGX system having four Tesla V100 GPUs.