CC* Regional Computing: Enhancing Computing At Regional Schools in the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC)

CC* 区域计算：增强落基山高级计算联盟 (RMACC) 区域学校的计算能力

• 批准号: 2322260
• 负责人: Shelley Knuth
• 金额: $ 98.61万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; Regional; Computing; Enhancing; Schools

This project to the University of Colorado and partners in the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) expands the capacity of the Alpine Computing Cluster, a regional resource for RMACC. The project expands capacity by more than 15% and triples the number of high-memory nodes. A wide range of research is supported, including physics, astronomy, engineering, biology, and atmospheric science. The project supports diverse workloads for the approximately 30 member institutions of RMACC. Student engagement is strong, as ten students from across the RMACC region are part of a cohort working closely with the system administration team to learn how to navigate the design, procurement, deployment, and administration of the system. The project supports researchers in EPSCoR jurisdictions, at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and institutions primarily serving rural communities within RMACC.As of February 2023, the Alpine cluster comprises 18,080 AMD Milan CPU cores as well as 60 GPU accelerators (36xNVIDIA A100’s, 24xAMD MI100’s). The 317 nodes are interconnected through 25Gb Ethernet, with standard compute nodes additionally featuring HDR100 InfiniBand links. Alpine is also equipped with a 1.9PB GPFS scratch filesystem. The expansion includes 32 nodes of 64C AMD Milan CPUs and 256GB of memory as well as eight nodes with 64C AMD Milan CPUs and 1TB of memory. It also includes two InfiniBand switches and associated HDR cables for high-throughput, low-latency networking. The expansion will provide an additional 1.3PB to Alpine’s high-speed scratch filesystem to meet the growing demand for data intensive computing research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目向科罗拉多大学大学和落基山高级计算联盟（RMACC）的合作伙伴扩大了高山计算集群的容量，这是RMACC的区域资源。该项目的容量扩大了15％以上，并增加了高内存节点的数量。支持广泛的研究，包括物理学，天文学，工程，生物学和大气科学。该项目为大约30个RMACC成员机构提供了各种工作量。学生参与度很强，因为来自RMACC地区的十个学生是与系统管理团队紧密合作的人群的一部分，以学习如何浏览系统的设计，采购，部署和管理系统。该项目支持EPSCOR司法管辖区的研究人员，主要是本科机构，西班牙裔服务机构以及2023年2月2日2月在RMACC内的农村社区的机构，包括18,080 AMD MILAN CPU CORES以及60 gpu ACPU ACELARS（36xnvicia），包括18,080 AMD MILAN CPU CORES（ mi100）。 317个节点通过25GB以太网互连，标准计算节点还具有HDR100 Infiniband链接。 Alpine还配备了1.9pb GPFS刮擦文件系统。扩展包括32个节点的64C AMD米兰CPU和256GB的内存以及8个节点，其中包括64C AMD Milan CPU和1TB的存储器。它还包括两个Infiniband开关和相关的HDR电缆，用于高通量，低延迟网络。该扩展将为Alpine的高速刮擦文件系统提供额外的1.3pb，以满足对数据密集型计算研究的不断增长的需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且是否使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来审查标准。