Guillermo Franco and Nathan Gregg will present a seminar on High Performance Computing today (April 8) from 5-6 p.m. in G102 Engineering Sciences Building.
HPC is a multidisciplinary field that brings elements of mathematics, software, and hardware to efficiently take advantage of our current level of technological development to offer answers to the most challenging questions of our time.
WVU offers a variety of resources in this area under what is called Research Computing (WVU-RC), 2 HPC clusters (Spruce Knob and the newest Thorny Flat), in addition to that WVU-RC also offer access to research data storage systems as well as the dedicated campus science DMZ network known as REX. In the last part of the seminar, we will focus on computational resources beyond WVU and how WVU researchers can get access to some of the most powerful supercomputers in the US. XSEDE is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide world-class computational resources to researchers in academia.