EECS High Performance Computing Cluster

About the EECS

HPC Cluster

The EECS HPC Cluster is a compute server built using the Sun Grid Engine with commodity hardware and freely available software. With more than 220 CPU's, the Cluster is ideally suited for Monte Carlo-style computations in which the same program is run many times with different random number seeds. It is also possible to run parallel programs on the Cluster using C and the MPI (Message Passing Interface) library, though the relatively high latency and low bandwidth of the network means only relatively coarse-grained computations can achieve reasonable speedup on many processors.