High Performance Computing Center Phase III Reception - Thursday, April 30, 2009
Good afternoon!
I am pleased to join you to celebrate the completion of the third phase of the High Performance Computing Center!
We have worked steadily toward this day since this project began in 2003. Many scientists, engineers and systems managers have graciously given their time and expertise. It is great to see such a long-lived project come to fruition.
With the completion of Phase III, the computing cluster at the heart of this center consists of 2,500 processor cores, together capable of 10 teraflops, or 10 trillion floating point operations per second.
The Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences, UF physics and the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research underwrote the third phase we celebrate today.
ICBR will rely on the center to seek the genetic underpinning of cancer and other diseases. UF physicists will tap the center to help calibrate the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva for its next run of particle physics experiments. Agricultural and biological engineers have a variety of projects planned.
What was first built as a tool for UF physicists now counts 300 users from across the university.
That is much more than an efficient use of computing resources. It will help us remain competitive with our peer research universities nationwide while enabling the world's most far-reaching science.
Congratulations! You now have some serious computing oomph at your fingertips. Use it well!
Thank you!
Bernie Machen