Facility Description for Proposals
The University Research Computing Facility (URCF; https://drexel.edu/core-facilities/facilities/research-computing/) provides university-wide shared-cost housing, utilities, and systems administration services for high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The URCF is a state-of-the-art 1,600-sq. ft. data center rated at 0.6 MW electrical and cooling capacity with two cool-aisle-containment pods of 19 42U racks each. The URCF houses Picotte, Drexel’s heterogeneous shared condominium HPC system, as well as systems belonging to individual PI’s. The URCF is part of the Internet 2 Innovation Platform, supporting 10 Gbps Ethernet. The URCF is overseen by a six-member faculty board and managed by a full-time senior systems administrator.
Picotte Description
Picotte is a shared condominium HPC system with 4,224 compute cores and 48 Nvidia Tesla V100-SXM2 GPU devices, running at a peak speed of 354.5 TFLOPS (measured) and providing 19.1 TB of RAM.