The Cornell Fracture Group studies problems such as deformation and crack growth in concrete dams under load and the failure of power transmission gears as they crack and break apart. This job ran on all 64 nodes of Velocity with linear scaling. The nodes are connected to a Dell PowerVault 200S Storage system with 4 terabytes capacity and a 4 terabyte Dell PowerVault 130T Tape Library. In addition to CTC's faculty research community, Velocity is available to AC 3 members from business, higher education, and government agencies. We are delighted with the success of the AC 3 partnership.
Velocity is a powerful, cost-effective system that is already nearly saturated with users.
With this kind of demand, it makes sense to look to scaling to larger systems in the near term. CTC is a high-performance computing and interdisciplinary research center focused on making parallel computing a usable tool for computational science and engineering. Since its founding in 1984, CTC has worked with a variety of hardware and software companies in research and development projects. CTC research initiatives include the NCRR Parallel Processing Resource for Biomedical Scientists funded by NIH, and programs in Computational Genomics and Computational Finance, and the Materials Science.