CC* Compute: A HPC Cluster for Science Research and Education at Tennessee Tech University

Information

• NSF Award
• 2127188

Owner

• Tennessee Technological University

• Award Id

  2127188

• Award Effective Date

  9/1/2021 - 3 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  8/31/2023 - a year ago

• Award Amount

  $ 399,983.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>Researchers at Tennessee Tech University (TN Tech) are making significant upgrades to the campus computing infrastructure that will significantly improve the university researchers’ and students’ ability to perform, enhance, and expand their systems-oriented, algorithms-oriented, or applications-oriented research activities. This enhanced new computing infrastructure complements other investments already made, in-progress, or in-planning at TN Tech. This modern campus cluster will enable TN Tech to grow and sustain the HPC culture by expanding on its current NSF-funded CyberTraining activities to include hundreds of faculty and their undergraduate students from resource-limited institutions from across the southeast. This new cluster will help TN Tech to build a regional resource for computational capacity and workforce development expanding opportunities to underrepresented groups in the region.<br/><br/>This award allows TN Tech to procure a state-of-the-art, cost-effective 10 node GPU cluster supporting 20 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, 1280 AMD Epyc2 CPU cores, and 5 TiB of main memory connected with 100 Gbit/s Infiniband. The cluster provides capabilities not previously available on campus. This project team anticipates significant research projects in computational fluid dynamics, biomechanics, and geospatial analysis, which will engage four partner universities. Seventeen ongoing research projects including 3 teaching projects will directly benefit from the improved infrastructure. Additional research projects will be enabled over time as the PIs and the planned internal advisory committee attract additional researchers and students requiring heterogeneous HPC. The project team expects about 100 of College of Engineering Ph.D. students will use the HPC infrastructure for their research.<br/><br/>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.

• Program Officer

  Kevin Thompsonkthompso@nsf.gov7032924220

• Min Amd Letter Date

  7/12/2021 - 3 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  7/12/2021 - 3 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Tennessee Technological University

• City

  Cookeville

• State

  TN

• Country

  United States

• Address

  Dixie Avenue

• Postal Code

  385050001

• Phone Number

  9313723374

• First Name

  Michael

• Last Name

  Rogers

• Email Address

  mrogers@tntech.edu

• Start Date

  7/12/2021 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Sheikh

• Last Name

  Ghafoor

• Email Address

  sghafoor@tntech.edu

• Start Date

  7/12/2021 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Alfred

• Last Name

  Kalyanapu

• Email Address

  akalyanapu@tntech.edu

• Start Date

  7/12/2021 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Syed Rafay

• Last Name

  Hasan

• Email Address

  shasan@tntech.edu

• Start Date

  7/12/2021 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Michael

• Last Name

  Renfro

• Email Address

  renfro@tntech.edu

• Start Date

  7/12/2021 12:00:00 AM

• Text

  Campus Cyberinfrastructure

• Code

  8080

• Text

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