Oklahoma State University turned to Advanced Clustering Technologies to build and install a new High Performance Computing system for data intensive research.

The supercomputer, named after the university’s mascot Pistol Pete, will be available to OSU faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates at no charge.

Pistol Pete
Pistol Pete – Pistol Pete

For Pete’s sake

Pistol Pete packs Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable Processors (previously known as Skylake). The system consists of more than 5,300 compute cores in Advanced Clustering’s ACTblade x110 systems. It also features the Lustre storage system and 100Gb/s Omni-Path fabric.

“Pistol Pete will make it possible for us to continue to meet the ever-growing demand for computational and data-intensive research and education at OSU and across Oklahoma,” Dr. Dana Brunson, assistant VP for research cyberinfrastructure and director of the OSU HPC center and adjunct associate professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science departments, said,

“This new cluster allows us to extend the mission of our HPC Center, which is to put advanced technology in the hands of our faculty, staff and students more quickly and less expensively, and with greater certainty of success.”

Kyle Sheumaker, Advanced Clustering Technologies president, added: “We are proud to be working with Dr. Brunson and Oklahoma State University to provide this new high performance computing resource.”

Advanced Clustering built the university’s previous cluster, Cowboy, which at its deployment in 2012 was a 3,048-core cluster using servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.