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“We’ve been striving to make a large investment in network infrastructure to be able to accommodate the implementations of both the SuperPOD and M3. I’m looking forward to the many stories of how our HPC environment has helped advance our research efforts,” stated David Nguyen, Associate CIO for Infrastructure.
When asked about onboarding faculty to our new research tools, Dr. Rob Kalesky, HPC Applications Scientist, OIT Research and Data Science Services, shared, “What’s great about when a faculty member who is not so familiar about HPC gets on to it for the first time is that they get comfortable with it and very quickly they see the scale they can do. When they get on to M3 or the SuperPOD, they suddenly realize they can take whatever data set they were working on that may have taken hours or days and run them much more quickly on a bigger system.”
The successful implementation of this suite fosters our High-performance computing goals and provides
more capability to our research community.
Empowering Connectivity: From Networks to
Virtual Servers
Network Upgrades
Our campus connectivity relies on both wired and wireless network connections throughout SMU’s main and east campuses. Currently, we have 50,000 active network jacks and over 3,500 wireless access points installed, ensuring seamless network access for the entire campus community. We conducted cabling and network switch upgrades in 26 buildings, providing improved wired connections, and 46 buildings received wireless upgrades with over 2000 access points upgraded to the latest models, enhancing performance.
InFRASTRucTuRE: PROvIdInG POWER TO FuEl chAnGE
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