{"id":2568,"date":"2024-01-28T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:46:09","slug":"enhancing-the-universitys-computing-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/enhancing-the-universitys-computing-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing the University’s
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Using machine learning techniques to discover new drugs, design materials for targeted applications, and analyze medical images for abnormalities are among the many ways the supercomputers of the Frost institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) are advancing research at the University of Miami.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team can help faculty and students,
\nas well as stakeholders in the South Florida community,
\nat every step in the research process.\u201d<\/h4>\n

\"J.\u201cOur team can help faculty and students, as well as stakeholders in the South Florida community, at every step in the research process,\u201d said J. Warner Baringer<\/strong>, associate director, Advanced Computing Systems (ACS), which maintains IDSC\u2019s computation and storage infrastructure. \u201cFrom writing a grant to updating software or structuring ML\/AI training, we facilitate the use of our exceptionally powerful resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

IDSC\u2019s flagship is the TRITON supercompute<\/strong><\/a>r with 96 AC922 compute nodes, each with two 20-core POWER9 (P9) processors and two NVIDIA Tesla V100 (Volta) GPUs. Each node contains 256 GB DDR4 main memory, and each GPU has 16 GB HBM2 memory.\u00a0 When deployed in 2019, it was one of the top five academic supercomputers in the country.<\/p>\n

The ACS team also operates IDSC\u2019s Pegasus supercomputer<\/a><\/strong>, which has 340 IDataPlex compute nodes each with two 16-core Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors, 32 GB DDR3 main memory and peak memory bandwidth of 102 GB\/s. At the time of its installation in 2012, Pegasus ranked #389 in the “TOP500 List<\/strong>“<\/a> of the world’s fastest supercomputers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you were to perform a single calculation every second, without stopping, it would take you 34 million years to reach the combined capabilities of Pegasus and Triton,\u201d said Baringer.<\/p>\n

\"ErickIDSC\u2019s resources are located at the Network Access Point (“The NAP”) of the Americas, a six-story, 750,000-square-foot shared data center in downtown Miami (shown with red-painted accents, above) operated by Equinix. \u201cWe also have 6 terabytes of storage connected to these two computational clusters,\u201d said Erick Marin<\/strong>, IDSC systems administrator. \u201cOur team goes on site, as well as working remotely, to maintain this hardware.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enhancing Capabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

IDSC\u2019s ACS team continues to enhance the capabilities of the University of Miami\u2019s world-class infrastructure through an ongoing technology refresh cycle. \u201cWe are evaluating new CPU such as Intel-scalable processors and GPU technologies such as NVIDIA H100 to support the fast-growing, innovative research computing requirements across the UM enterprise,\u201d said Ravi Vadapalli<\/strong>, PhD, ACS director, and research associate professor, College of Engineering.<\/p>\n

\"RaviA planned investment will enhance IDSC\u2019s infrastructure, which is already one of top computational resources in Florida. \u201cWe provide a high level of service and support for users,\u201d said Baringer. \u201cEffective modeling and training are vital tools for solving large and complex problems in the sciences, medicine and engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

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