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The NPS HPC Center is located in rooms 301 and 303 of Spanagel Hall at NPS.
The center provides a secure physical environment consisting of:
- Approximately 1000 sqft of raised floor space
- 150 KVA electrical power
- 30 tons of cooling
- Networking cabinet directly connected to the CENIC CalREN-HPR network
- Gigabit eithernet connectivity through Internet2 (Abilene)
The HPCC supports high-performance computers owned by various departments.
Facilities News
July 25, 2008
After extensive research and discussions with vendors, NPS has decided to install a new Sun Microsystems High-Performance Computing Cluster with a total of 1152 processors and a total of theoretical processing power of 10.736 teraflops (trillion floating-point operations per second). Included with the system is 112 terabytes of storage. A highly expandable and adaptable infrastructure, which will enable research programs to purchase extra computing power for use as a private on-demand cluster, will be available as a shared resource based on load balancing policies to be established by the users.
By combining efforts, NPS research programs can expect to save a considerable amount of money and resources. The Sun computing cluster also utilizes blade-based technologies which consume less energy, making the system more environmentally friendly than previously available supercomputers. The NPS supercomputer will also reduce the current 12 racks in the High-Performance Computing Center to 5 racks which will be placed in the Data Center, which is equipped with a central cooling system, and uninterruptible power system which protects the central computing resources of the School in case of power outages.
The Sun supercomputer, which ranks among the top 1,000 systems in the world, will establish the Naval Postgraduate School as an internationally recognized premiere supercomputing facility.
More information and updates will be posted in the near future.
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