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Montana Tech has a 22-node high performance computing (HPC) cluster for faculty and student research use. The system includes 25 TB of storage for storing large data sets and simulation results. Two of the nodes include three NVIDIA Tesla K20 graphical processing units (gpu), which adds 7488 CUDA cores on each node for additional processing power. A full-time HPC Application Scientist is available to help new users get setup on the system and assist them in their computational research. The HPC system is remotely accessible and available to all MUS faculty and students. The system is being used for a variety of projects from computational material modeling at the atomic level to grizzly bear population modeling in the greater Glacier National Park area. Software packages that are available for research and student use include COMSOL, Matlab, NAMD, LAMMPS, and R.
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==<span style="color:#925223">Supporting the Computational Science and Research Needs of Montana </span>==
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<p align="justify">Montana Tech's High Performance Computing (HPC) architecture debuted as the first HPC in Montana University System (MUS) and it has been designed to support collaborative research and instruction within Montana MUS. Funded by the Montana Department of commerce as a MUS-wide initiative, this computing cluster is available to faculty, students, researchers, and public/private industry collaborators.</p>
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Both modeling simulations and informatics results in a large amount of data that needs to be stored and analyzed. Data visualization is an effective tool to help analyze and communicate numerical research results. Montana Tech has two 3D data visualization systems with a variety of visualization software packages. Both 3D visualization systems use stereo projection, shutter glasses, and a tracking system to enable a researcher to directly interact with the 3D imagery. Some of the available software includes Arc Scene for GIS data, LidarViewer, Google Earth, VisIt, and VMD for molecular dynamic data.
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Both the HPC cluster and the 3D data visualization system were funded by the state of Montana and are available for MUS researchers and educators. Montana Tech. currently pays for system support. We hope current and future researchers will incorporate the facilities into their grant proposals to fund system expansion and future support.
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<p align="justify">Montana Tech's HPC is a small cluster consists of 26 nodes with 544 cores. Two of the nodes are GPU nodes adding 7488 CUDA cores. The nodes are connected with 40Gbps InfiniBand and have access to 91 TB storage sytems. The theoretical peak performance of the entire cluster is about 21 TFLOPS. </p>
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<p align="justify">Associated with the HPC are two 3D data visualization systems with a variety of visualization software packages. Both 3D visualization systems are equipped with either 108" stereo projection wall or 70" 3D TV, shutter glasses, and a tracking system to enable researcher to directly interact with the 3D imagery.</p>
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<p align="justify">Montana Tech currently pays for the system support. We hope current and future researchers will [[Grant_information|incorporate]] the facilities into their grant proposals to fund system expansion and future support. Researchers can also propose infrastructure expansions, if funding is available. </p>
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* Multiphysics Simulations
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* Molecular Dynamics
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* Gene Analysis
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* Teaching
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* [https://hpc.mtech.edu/ganglia/?c=Oredigger&m=load_one&r=hour&s=by%20name&hc=4&mc=2 Current Cluster Status (Ganglia)]
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* 04/01/2023 Software will be reinstalled. User accounts will be recovered upon request.
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* 03/31/2023 HPC system upgraded to Rocky Linux 8 + Warewulf (stateless) from CentOS7 + xCAT (stateful).
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* 03/05/2020 We have migrated to SLURM from Torque/Moab. Documentation will be updated.
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* 08/20/2019 Four new compute nodes featuring the latest Xeon Platinum processors has arrived
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Latest revision as of 15:19, 1 April 2023


Supporting the Computational Science and Research Needs of Montana

Montana Tech's High Performance Computing (HPC) architecture debuted as the first HPC in Montana University System (MUS) and it has been designed to support collaborative research and instruction within Montana MUS. Funded by the Montana Department of commerce as a MUS-wide initiative, this computing cluster is available to faculty, students, researchers, and public/private industry collaborators.

HPC Cluster

Montana Tech's HPC is a small cluster consists of 26 nodes with 544 cores. Two of the nodes are GPU nodes adding 7488 CUDA cores. The nodes are connected with 40Gbps InfiniBand and have access to 91 TB storage sytems. The theoretical peak performance of the entire cluster is about 21 TFLOPS.

Data Visualization

Associated with the HPC are two 3D data visualization systems with a variety of visualization software packages. Both 3D visualization systems are equipped with either 108" stereo projection wall or 70" 3D TV, shutter glasses, and a tracking system to enable researcher to directly interact with the 3D imagery.

Collaborations

Montana Tech currently pays for the system support. We hope current and future researchers will incorporate the facilities into their grant proposals to fund system expansion and future support. Researchers can also propose infrastructure expansions, if funding is available.

Current Uses

  • Multiphysics Simulations
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Statistical Simulations
  • Gene Analysis
  • Teaching

What's New

  • Current Cluster Status (Ganglia)
  • 04/01/2023 Software will be reinstalled. User accounts will be recovered upon request.
  • 03/31/2023 HPC system upgraded to Rocky Linux 8 + Warewulf (stateless) from CentOS7 + xCAT (stateful).
  • 03/05/2020 We have migrated to SLURM from Torque/Moab. Documentation will be updated.
  • 08/20/2019 Four new compute nodes featuring the latest Xeon Platinum processors has arrived




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