{"id":2879,"date":"2025-09-28T08:43:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:41:46","slug":"idsc-advanced-computing-systems-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/idsc-advanced-computing-systems-services\/","title":{"rendered":"IDSC Advanced Computing Systems Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IDSC Advanced Computing Systems<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(ACS) team consults on storage solutions, hardware, installation, systems administration, storage maintenance, account maintenance, and end-user support. They can also provide design and implementation of high-performance solutions, scientific programming, parallel code profiling, and code optimization.<\/p>\n

The team designs and analyzes high-performance computing (HPC) systems for big-data-system users from a variety of application areas, and has expertise in developing distributed computing, software, and databases. The team is also exploring and developing new parallel-computing paradigms and architectures for researchers who need to process, store, retrieve, analyze, and understand massive data sets, where computation and storage breakthroughs are essential.<\/p>\n

With all classes of research, IDSC ACS strives for synergy and interaction. Over the past decade, the University\u2019s advanced computing platform has grown the HPC cyberinfrastructure from nothing to a regional advanced-computing environment supporting 500+ users and a large state-of-the-art, high-performance storage system (over 10 PB).<\/p>\n

\"UniversityTRITON<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The U\u2019s latest acquisition, TRITON<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0a state-of-art\u00a0IBM power9 system<\/strong>\u00a0was rated one of the\u00a0Top 5 Academic Institution Supercomputers in the US <\/strong>when purchased, and is UM\u2019s first GPU-accelerated HPC system, representing a completely new approach to computational and data science. Built using IBM Power Systems AC922 servers, this system was designed to maximize data movement between the IBM POWER9 CPU and attached accelerators like GPUs. TRITON is designed to accommodate traditional HPC, interactive Data Science, Big Data AI, and Machine Learning workloads. This represents a quantum leap in the University\u2019s computing infrastructure, and it is designed to address the ever-expanding needs of data-driven research.<\/p>\n

Pegasus<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The University\u2019s first Supercomputer, Pegasus<\/a>, now offers researchers from the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center<\/a> new computational and storage resources. The Pegasus cluster has been augmented with an additional 1024 cores, 6TB of memory and 1PB of high-performance IBM ESS storage. Each additional compute node is equipped with two Intel Xeon scalable 32-core 3.0GHz processors and 256GB DDR4 3200Mhz memory. These additional resources are in response to the growing demand for computational and storage resources at Sylvester and across the University. Pegasus\u00a0is an IBM\u00a0<\/strong>IDataPlex system <\/strong>(ranked at number 389 worldwide on the November 2012 Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list<\/a>). Pegasus has provided over 90 million CPU hours\/year to research projects, and maintains a utilization rate near 85%.<\/p>\n

AI and Data Science Capabilities<\/h4>\n