Central Michigan University

Center for High Performance Scientific Computing

      A Beowulf - type cluster was assembled at the Department of Physics, Central Michigan University. The cluster connects 20 dual Alpha EV6 833, 750 and 667 MHz workstations via a very fast SCI network. Details about its architecture are also available here.

	The entire project, about $ 200,000, was funded by the National Science Foundation, grant DMR-944582, and Central Michigan University. A Center for High Performance Scientific Computing was organized in the fall of 2000.
	Among the goals of the center are the support of research in material science, nuclear physics, parallel computing, and to offer know-how to other groups interested in building clusters of computers for high performance scientific computations.

Recent events:

July 01, 2005

Cluster Upgrade: Most of the old Alpha nodes were retired, nine new Dual Intel Xeon 3.6 MHz and one Quad AMD Opteron 850 were added with the help of the Research Excellence Fund of Michigan. For details of the upgraded cluster click here.

August 08, 2001

The processing power of the cluster was increased by adding four dual alpha 833 MHz nodes to the already existing sixteen nodes.

March 01, 2001

The queuing system has been installed and is currently running.
Users can find information about using the system on the PBS Q&A page.

November 01, 2000

The cluster entered in production mode.

September 01, 2000

The hardware arrived at Central Michigan University.

January 2000

The test of SCI network finished on a pilot Intel cluster.

September 01, 1999

National Science Foundation awarded a grant for acquisition of an Advanced Workstation Cluster for High Performance Computing in Physics.

For a complete list of events click here or on the News link.