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The UMBC High Performance Computing Facility is the community-based, interdisciplinary core facility for scientific computing and research on parallel algorithms at UMBC. Started in 2008 by more than 20 researchers from ten academic departments and research centers from all academic colleges at UMBC, it is supported by faculty contributions, federal grants, and the UMBC administration.

Since HPCF’s inception, over 400 users have benefited from its computing clusters, including undergraduate and graduate students. The users have generated over 400 publications, including 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including Nature, Science, and other top-tier journals in their fields), 50 refereed conference papers, and 50 theses. The facility is open to UMBC researchers at no charge.

Researchers can contribute funding for long-term priority access. Administration and maintenance is provided by the UMBC Division of Information Technology (DoIT) advised by the faculty-run Shared Infrastructure Governance committee, and users have access to consulting support provided by dedicated team organized under the Research Computing Group of DoIT.

The UMBC HPCF currently consists of one HPC cluster, chip .

 

For information on how to use, operate, and navigate the chip cluster

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Intel Adopts LLVM

Intel Compilers move to use LLVM open source infrastructure

I just saw this update regarding the Intel compilers, thought I would share it with our HPC community. This will not affect the compilers we currently have on Taki. From the article:...

Posted: August 12, 2021, 2:07 PM

Significant Extension of HPCF CPU Cluster taki

Thank 10 faculty from 9 departments for 17 new CPU nodes!

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, We are happy to share the news that HPCF is able to extend the CPU cluster in taki by 17 new nodes. DoIT has placed the purchase order last week....

Posted: May 6, 2021, 2:09 PM

Extension of HPCF Publications Page with PDFs

Please provide PDF files of HPCF publications!

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, This message starts with the usual reminder to send me references to publications that used HPCF and its cluster taki, so that we can post them as...

Posted: May 3, 2021, 5:52 PM

Outcomes Report of NSF MRI Grant Posted

Report provides visual highlights of work using taki

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, In 2017, a group of 51 UMBC researchers was successful in competing for an MRI (Major Research Infrastructure) grant from the NSF. Having this many...

Posted: December 13, 2020, 8:36 AM

HPCF Usage Stats Posted

Taki usage is analyzed by PI groups and architecture

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, User support in collaboration with system administrators have developed visual representation of monthly usage levels of taki's CPU and GPU...

Posted: December 12, 2020, 8:36 AM