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The OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research,
a division of OU
Information Technology,
helps undergraduates, grad students, faculty and staff to
learn and use advanced computing in their
science and engineering research and education.
Latest News
Jan 14-18 2013:
We're moving Boomer to the new data center in Four Partners Place
this week.
Oct 25 2012:
Read a
case
study
about
Boomer.
Aug 13-17 2012:
This week, we're hosting a tutorial workshop
sponsored and run by the
Virtual School of
Computational Science & Engineering
on
Proven
Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors.
Aug 14 2012:
Read a
case
study
about the
Oklahoma PetaStore.
Aug 6-9 2012:
We held a Blue Ribbon review of all Research IT activities and plans
this week.
It was extremely helpful.
July 29 - Aug 4 2012:
We hosted a tutorial workshop
sponsored and run by the
National
Computational Science Institute
on
Introduction
to Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing.
July 10-13 2012:
We hosted a tutorial workshop
sponsored and run by the
Virtual School of
Computational Science & Engineering
on
Programming
Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems.
May 25 2012:
Watch
a video
of Boomer's ribbon cutting.
May 23 2012:
Sooner has been completely decommissioned and will no longer
be available.
April 30 2012:
13 of the 14 racks of compute nodes from Dell's "Merge Center"
have arrived.
See pictures
here.
March 26 2012:
The first components for OSCER's new cluster supercomputer,
Boomer, have begun to arrive.
March 20 2012:
The purchase orders for OSCER's new cluster supercomputer,
Boomer, have been sent.
Jan 26 2012:
The OU Board of Regents has approved the purchase of
OSCER's new cluster supercomputer, Boomer.
April 6 2011:
The Oklahoma PetaStore's
TS3500
tape library,
of initially 2889 tape cartridge slots,
with 100 slots initially populated with LTO-5 tape cartridges
(roughly 150 TB),
has arrived at the
Stephenson
Research & Technology Center.
April 4 2011:
The Oklahoma PetaStore's
DCS9900
disk system
(rebranded
DataDirect Networks
S2A9900)
of 1200 disk drive slots,
with 300 slots initially populated with 2 TB SATA 7200 RPM disk drives
(roughly 430 TB useable),
has arrived at the
Stephenson
Research & Technology Center.
March 28 2011:
OSCER has sent the purchase order for the
Oklahoma PetaStore to IBM.
The PetaStore will consist of
(1) a
DCS9900
disk system
(rebranded
DataDirect Networks
S2A9900)
of 1200 disk drive slots,
with 300 slots initially populated with 2 TB SATA 7200 RPM disk drives
(roughly 430 TB useable),
and
(2) a
TS3500
tape library,
of initially 2889 tape cartridge slots,
with 100 slots initially populated with LTO-5 tape cartridges
(roughly 150 TB).
January 26 2011:
The OU
Board of Regents
has approved the purchase of
the Oklahoma PetaStore from IBM.
August 31 2010:
OSCER has been awarded a
National Science Foundation
Major
Research Instrumentation
grant:
"Acquisition of Extensible Petascale Storage for Data Intensive Research,"
OCI-1039829,
$792,925,
Oct 1 2010 - Sep 30 2013.
PI Henry Neeman (OSCER);
Co-PIs
Matthew Jensen
(OU MIS),
Michael Strauss
(OU Physics & Astronomy),
Xiangming Xiao
(OU Botany & Microbiology),
Ming Xue
(OU Meteorology);
Senior Personnel
Edward Baron
(OU Physics & Astronomy),
Kendra Dresback
(OU Civil Engineering & Environmental Science),
Randall Kolar
(OU Civil Engineering & Environmental Science),
Amy McGovern
(OU Computer Science),
Robert Palmer
(OU Meteorology),
Dimitrios Papavassiliou
(OU Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering),
Horst Severini
(OU Physics & Astronomy),
Patrick Skubic
(OU Physics & Astronomy),
Theodore Trafalis
(OU Industrial Engineering),
Michael Wenger
(OU Psychology),
Ralph Wheeler
(Duquesne University
Chemistry & Biochemistry).
Details are
here.
August 25 2010:
Oklahoma has been awarded a
National Science Foundation
EPSCoR
Research
Infrastructure Improvement Program:
Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2)
grant:
"Oklahoma Optical Initiative,"
EPS-1006919,
$1,176,470,
Sep 1 2010 - Aug 31 2012.
PI Henry Neeman (OSCER);
Co-PIs
James Deaton
(OneNet),
Dana Brunson
(Oklahoma State University
High Performance Computing Center);
Senior Personnel
Ji He
(Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation),
Dale Schoenefeld
(University of Tulsa),
Joel Snow
(Langston University),
Michael Strauss
(OU),
Xiangming Xiao
(OU),
Ming Xue
Ming Xue
(OU).
Details are
here.
January 26 2009:
Watch a
video
about OSCER
(also on
YouTube).
And
here
is another video about OSCER.
June 10 2006:
OSCER director
Henry Neeman
has been named
one of
HPCwire's
People
to Watch 2006.
November 9 2005:
OSCER has received a
Small Grant for Exploratory Research
from the
National Science Foundation.
October 3 2005:
The
Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium 2006
will be held
the evening of Tue Oct 3 and
Wed Oct 4 2006
at OU.
The keynote speaker will be
Dr.
Dan Atkins,
head of the
National Science Foundation's
new
Office of
Cyberinfrastructure.
Other plenary speakers will include
Dr.
Earl C. Joseph II,
Program Vice President for High-Performance Computing
at
IDC
and
Dr. Stephen R. Wheat,
Director of HPC
at
Intel.
April 20 2005:
Topdawg has been delivered!
March 23 2005:
The OU Board of Regents has approved the purchase of a large
Xeon64 Linux cluster from
Dell,
to be named
topdawg.oscer.ou.edu.
February 7 2005:
OSCER will host a
National
Computational Science Institute
summer workshop
on Parallel & Cluster Computing
Sun July 31 - Sat Aug 6 2005.
Here's a link
to last year's workshop materials.
November 29 2004:
The
Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium 2005
will be held Wed Oct 5 2005,
with a Parallel Programming workshop
and a reception on Tue Oct 4 2005.
November 17 2004:
OSCER will host a workshop sponsored by the
Linux
Clusters Institute
Tue June 21 - Fri June 24 2005.
August 8-14 2004:
OSCER is hosting a
Parallel & Cluster Computing Workshop,
sponsored by the
National
Computational Science Institute
and the
Shodor Education Foundation Inc.
June 30 2004:
OSCER's
Itanium2 cluster
has arrived!
June 6 2004:
Listen to
OSCER on the radio!
Click here
and find the entry for June 6 2004
to learn more about OSCER on
the
radio show
Oklahoma Innovations
from the
Oklahoma Center for
the Advancement of Science & Technology
(OCAST).
The OSCER part of the show starts about 10 minutes in.
June 1 2004:
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Oklahoma has joined the
National Lambda Rail!
NLR is an ultra high speed network,
100 times faster than the commodity Internet
and 10 times faster than Internet2.
Oklahoma's Lambda Rail system
will provide connections between
Norman, Oklahoma City, Stillwater and Tulsa,
with the primary node in Tulsa.
Oklahoma is one of only two states in the southern Great Plains,
along with Missouri, to get a Lambda Rail connection,
and one of only 5
EPSCoR
states,
among 26 EPSCoR states and territories.
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May 12 2004:
Join us for the
Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2004
at OU October 6-7.
March 30 2004:
OSCER has joined the
Coalition for
Academic Scientific Computation.
March 29 2004:
OSCER has moved to the
Peggy and Charles
Stephenson Research and Technology Center.
August 14 2003:
The National
Science Foundation has awarded OSCER a
Major
Research Instrumentation
grant from a proposal titled
"Acquisition of an Itanium Cluster for Grid Computing."
The grant starts Sep 1 2003 and runs 3 years.
Click here for details.
July 16 2003:
The Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2003
was held Thursday September 25 at OU,
with a Parallel Programming Workshop held on Wednesday September 24.
The keynote speaker was Peter Freeman,
Assistant Director of NSF's
Directorate for Computer &
Information Science & Engineering.
Other speakers included:
Stephen Wheat, HPC Principal Scientist for Intel;
Greg Monaco, Director for Research of the Great Plains Network;
Jose Castanos of the Blue Gene/L team.
Feb 13 2003:
OSCER will be moving to the
Peggy and Charles
Stephenson Research and Technology Center
when it opens in early 2004 (scheduled).
Check out the
webcam
showing the construction site and some
architectural
drawings
and the same in
closeup.
The drawing labeled
"Interior and Level 1" or "Plan Level 1"
shows OSCER's new machine room and office suite
(the dark blue area at bottom center of the floorplan).
Also, here's our proposed layout for the machine room
(PDF
and
PNG).
Feb 6 2003:
Retirement of the Cray J90:
pictures
Jan 6 2003:
OU
Supercomputing Symposium 2003
Sep 25 on the OU Norman campus.
Dec 23 2002:
Realtime Weather Forecasts from the
Center for
Analysis & Prediction of Storms
are now running on OSCER's Linux Cluster.
Dec 14 2002:
OSCER's
Linux Cluster gets 606.9 GFLOP/s!
This makes Boomer the fastest supercomputer
in the Big 12 and one of the top 25 fastest IA-32 clusters in the world.
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