II-NEW: Distributed Computing Laboratory for Large Scale System Modeling and Analysis

该奖项旨在获得一个8节点多核混合CPU+GPU系统，以支持在大型复杂系统建模及其解决方案、计算流体动力学、高性能数据和流处理以及混合多核和GPU方法的可靠和高完整性方法等领域使用基于多核、基于GPU和混合高性能计算应用的研究。建议的配置还包括一个前端节点和一个存储服务器节点，具有80 TB的磁盘容量，通过现有的Infiniband网络互连，用于多层、分层并行计算。每个计算节点由四AMD新的Interlagos处理器6220与8核心运行在3.0GHz（可高达3.6GHz）和512 GB的RAM，和一个双448核心特斯拉费米GPU与6 GB的内存。该系统将用于支持以CISE为中心的跨学科高性能计算研究。该项目建立了一个计算仪器，部署多个多核混合CPU+GPU系统，以支持需要混合高性能计算机器的应用。该仪器有助于在研究前沿的各种应用背景下研究基于多核和GPU的高性能计算：大型复杂系统及其解决方案方法的建模，例如高性能数据和流处理，混合多核和GPU上的可靠和高完整性方法，以及计算流体动力学。

This award is to acquire an 8 node multicore hybrid CPU+GPU system in support of research in use of multicore-based, GPU-based and hybrid high performance computing applications in the areas of large and complex system modeling and their solution methods, computational fluid dynamics, high performance data and stream processing, and dependable and high integrity methods on hybrid multicore and GPU methods. The proposed configuration also includes one front node and one storage server node with 80 TB disk capacity interconnected by an existing Infiniband network for multi-tiered, hierarchical parallel computing. Each compute node consists of Quad AMD new Interlagos processor 6220 with 8-core operating at 3.0GHz (can go up to 3.6GHz) and 512 GB of RAM, and a dual 448-core Tesla Fermi GPUs with 6 GB memory. The system will be used to support CISE centric interdisciplinary high performance computing research.This project establishes a computational instrument deploying multiple multicore hybrid CPU+GPU systems to support applications requiring hybrid high performance computing machinery. The instrumentation facilitates research in multicore- and GPU-based high performance computing in the context of the diverse set of applications at the frontiers of research: modeling of large and complex systems and their solution methods, such as high performance data and stream processing, dependable and high integrity methods on hybrid multicore and GPU, and computational fluid dynamics.