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The NSF funded Blue Waters petascale supercomputer has a peak performance of over 13 petaflops, some 26 petabytes of disk storage, and up to 380 petabytes of tape storage. Although much of Blue Waters is allocated through an NSF review process, different mechanisms exists for Illinois faculty and researchers to take advantage of this resource. The different allocation mechanisms are described at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/illinois-allocations. Contact Jay Roloff (jayr@illinois.edu) for more information on Blue Waters allocations.
ROGER CyberGIS Supercomputer
The CyberGIS supercomputer, ROGER (Resourcing Open Geospatial Education and Research) is funded through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant. Located at the National Petascale Computing Facility next to Blue Waters, ROGER is designed especially for geospatial applications requiring advanced cyberinfrastructure. Each computing node has access to over 4 petabytes of high speed persistent storage and at least 128 gigabytes of local memory, and the connects to external networks at 40Gb/s. ROGER is a uniquely designed system that integrates subsystems dedicated to traditional batch high performance computing (HPC) (a number of which have Nvidia Tesla K40 Graphic Processing Units (GPUs)), data-intensive computing (e.g. Hadoop, Spark), and an OpenStack private cloud, enabling users to take advantage of the best computing paradigm for their needs. A complete technical summary of the system can be found on the ROGER wiki. On the software side, ROGER now has a number of traditional scientific and geospatial software packages installed and the software capabilities on ROGER continuously evolve in response to the needs of the user community.
Ice House Long Term Data Storage
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