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Our new IMPACT 1048-CPU cluster called Pyramid is now available ! Pyramid is composed of 131 Sun X2200 M2 servers, dual socket quad-core Opteron 2.2 GHz with 8GB of RAM; for a total of 1048 cores. The cluster can deliver a theoritical peak of 9.2 TFLOPS. The nodes are interconnected with stackable GigE switches. The main purpose of the cluster is to support the computing needs of the Institute of Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT) faculty and students. |
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IMPACT kickoff held on May 8th 2007 in the Jack Morton auditorium was well received from faculty and scientific communities from ECE, MAE, CS, CEE, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. The event chaired by Professor Tarek El-Ghazawi introduced the IMPACT center along with speeches from executive vice president Donald Lehman, SEAS dean Timothy Tong, chief research officer Elliot Hirshman. IMPACT's nine steering commitee members Marc Allard, William Briscoe, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Cing-Dao Kan, Can Korman, Roger Lang, Frank Lee, Rajat Mittal, and Jonathan Stanton presented their vision of the institute and collaboration plans. |
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 SEAS recently organized the first GW Symposium on High-Performance Computing and Applications, which was held at the Marvin Center in October 2006. The symposium was conceived to provide a forum to showcase advanced computing work at GW and to learn about the direction and key programs of the federal government in high performance computing. It was co-chaired by SEAS Professors Tarek El-Ghazawi, Steve Kan, and Rajat Mittal, and approximately 60 people from government, SEAS, and GW’s |
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