Managing a growing high performance infrastructure on a fixed budget
Gale D. Fritsche · 2008
Most universities involved in scientific research utilize some sort of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities. High Performance Computing (often referred to as High Throughput Computing or Scientific Computing) can be defined as using parallel processing to run advanced applications in an efficient manner. These facilities usually contain a variety of hardware configurations including compute clusters (Beowulf clusters), grids or SMP (Symmetrical Multi Processing) computers. At most institutions the HPC resources utilized by faculty and students are provided in one of three ways: Centralized resources managed by University technology departments, decentralized facilities managed by academic departments, external faculties such as the Pittsburgh Super Computing Center.