HPC Center Affiliations
HPC-Enabled Publications
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A Computational Study of SrTiO3 Thin Film Deposition: Morphology and Growth Modes
J.L. Wohlwend, C.N. Bosewell, S.R. Phillpot, and S.B. Sinnott
Welcome
Welcome to the HPC Center of the University of Florida. On these pages you will find a wealth of information regarding the resources, policies and people which, collectively, comprise the HPC Center. If, after reviewing this information, you have unanswered questions or feedback please feel free to contact us at info@hpc.ufl.edu
UF HPC News
Research Computing Matching Fund 2012
Posted: May 1st, 2012
New funding opportunity! The Research Computing Matching Program 2012 has been announced on Research Computing Day on April 25th, 2012. The matching program provides matching funds for UF faculty who make certain level system acquisitions at HPC Center. This announcement further signifies the university's commitment to support research computing in UF campus and its determination to provide first class computing facilities for UF researchers. For application guidelines and procedures, please refer to the following link
Link: http://www.hpc.ufl.edu/doc/RCMatchingProgram2012.pdf
UF HPC Earns CMS Accolades
Posted: March 19th, 2012
Research Computing's HPC Center was recognized today as the leading CMS Tier 2 site for availability and the third most productive site for analysis job hosting among all tier 2 sites worldwide.
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a particle detector that is designed to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in high-energy collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and is one of six major LHC experiments.
Link: http://www.uslhc.us/The_US_and_the_LHC/Computing
HPC Center Deploys New Equipment
Posted: March 12th, 2012
In February the HPC Center received and installed two significant new resources. The first is a rack of servers hosting 1088 AMD Opteron 6220 cores. The second is a set of new fermi-class nVidia M2070 and M2090 GPUs.
The Opteron cores are already fully utilized serving HPC Center users while the GPUs are being utilized for astronomy research and GPU programming classes (CIS 6930).
Link: http://hpc.ufl.edu/ganglia/
ICBR Technology Spotlight March 23, 2012
Posted: March 5th, 2012
UF Research Computing has deployed a test cluster for computational biology with the widely used Galaxy software on it to manage complex computing tasks in the life sciences. The ICBR is organizing an event focused on Galaxy. The featured guest speaker is James Taylor from Emory University, who is the chief architect of Galaxy.
Link: http://www.biotech.ufl.edu/announce.html
Power Outage
Posted: December 19th, 2011
The Physical Plant Division (PPD) has announced a power outage for Larsen Hall on December 19th from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM in order to repair faulty wiring in an outdoor breaker panel.
To accommodate this outage, the HPC Center will be shutting down its facilities at 6:00AM on the morning of the 19th and will resume operations as soon as possible following the restoration of power in Larsen Hall.





