Research Computing

The TIGRESS group strives to provide advanced technology for evaluation by the Princeton research community.   To this end, we regularly acquire small experimental systems with new technology so that research groups have an opportunity to evaluate and benchmark, to a limited extent, these advanced systems.

The experimental systems do not provide our production environment, such as /tigress-hsm or backup.   They are allocated in one or two week units for the sole use of a research group.   They are provisioned with accounts of the group members and standard software.   They normally do not run job schedulers, unless they represent a fairly large resource.   At the end of the allocation, all of the files on the system are discarded and a new standard environment installed.

 Please contact cses@princeton.edu for access.

Delphi - SiCortex SC072

Delphi is a 72 node supercomputer with the MIPS64 architecture, an exotic node interconnect, a job scheduler and the Pathscale compiler suite.   The manufacturer is out of business.

Cellia - IBM BladeCenter QS22

Cellia is a three node IBM Cell system with a Intel host processor and two IBM QS22 PowerXCell 8i processors.   It has the IBM Cell development environment installed with Fedora 8 as the operating system.   This is same type of Cell processor that was used in the Roadrunner supercomputer.   IBM does not appear to be continuing the development of Cell based supercomputer solutions.

Tesla1 and Tesla2 - NVIDIA Tesla GPU's

Tesla1 and Tesla2 are two separate experimental systems, each of which has an NVIDIA Tesla S1070.   They have the NVIDIA CUDA SDK as well as the PGI CUDA capable compilers installed.