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COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY
MANEFRAME I (RETIRED)
104
TERAFLOPS
MANEFRAME II (2017)
603
TERAFLOPS
MANEFRAME II (SUMMER 2019)
870
TERAFLOPS
MANEFRAME II (AUGUST 2020)
880
TERAFLOPS
HIGH-POWER COMPUTING (HPC) ENHANCEMENTS
In order to allow broader access to ManeFrame II, a new OnDemand Web
Portal was created. This new portal provides access to remote desktop instances for working with applications using a graphical interface. Instances of MATLAB, SAS, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, and RStudio Server, are a few of the tools available in the portal.
OIT is already planning for the next iteration of ManeFrame by working with Dell, who has already donated a bleeding-edge compute node that includes AMD GPUs and processors. We are also adding additional storage which provides long-term backups and will fill a much-needed gap within the HPC ecosystem.
INTERNET OF THINGS NETWORK: LoRaWAN
With the increase of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the demand to easily connect these devices continues to expand. The current SMU network has safeguards in place to ensure academic and administrative data
0 0 0 2286
WEB PORTAL APPLICATION USAGE
NUMBER OF NODES
USERS
1104
NODES
USERS
349
NODES
USERS
354
NODES
USERS
358
NODES
30 115 120 121
RAM MEMORY
INTEL X86 CPU CORES
INTEL X86 KNL CORES
CUDA CORES (NVIDIA)
TERABYTES TERABYTES
8832 11088
CORES CORES
0 2560
CORES CORES
TERABYTES
11276
CORES
2560
CORES
TERABYTES
11408
CORES
2560
CORES
0 132608 275968 275968
CORES CORES CORES CORES
20 100 100 100
NODE INTERCONNECT BANDWIDTH
SCRATCH SPACE
GIGABYTES PER SECOND
1.4
PETABYTES
GIGABYTES PER SECOND
2.8
PETABYTES
GIGABYTES PER SECOND
2.8
PETABYTES
GIGABYTES PER SECOND
2.8
PETABYTES
OS
OPERATING SYSTEM
SCIENTIFIC LINUX 6 CENTOS 7 CENTOS 7 CENTOS 7
is protected. These protections pose unique challenges for researchers that need to connect IoT devices that have less complex connectivity requirements.
Partnering with an outside company to provide the necessary equipment, OIT was able to develop a new Long-Range Wide Area Network, (LoRaWAN) that allows IoT devices an efficient alternative for connectivity. The implementation of this new network was recently completed in specific areas and is now available for researchers.
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