Facility Description for Proposals
The University Research Computing Facility (URCF), established in 2013, provides high-performance scientific computing and secure storage of protected health information to both the Drexel community and other universities in the Philadelphia area. The current supercomputer, Picotte, is the result of a combined investment funded by both Drexel and the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program. Named in honor of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American to earn a medical degree and a Drexel alum, Picotte consists of 4,224 compute cores and 48 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs capable of running at a theoretical peak speed of 355 TFLOPS and is housed in a state-of-the-art 1,600-sq.ft. data center. Picotte supercomputer is supported by a combined effort from both URCF and Drexel University IT. In addition to system administration, URCF provides training and research consultation activities for all users.