Hardware Locations
High Performance Computing Research Center
- High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) - This 47,000-square-foot facility opened in late 2011 provides a secure, reliable, and sustainable environment for IT equipment with 1.8 MW of UPS (scalable to 3.0 MW), 4.5 MW of diesel and gas power generation, and a designed Power Utilization Effectiveness of 1.5 at full load. The HPCRC serves as the home of TIGRESS -- the Terascale Infrastructure for Groundbreaking Research in Engineering and Science Center. TIGRESS is a collaborative effort that brings together funding, support, and participation from many departments and organizations across the University. The center is designed to create a well balanced set of High Performance Computing (HPC) resources meeting the broad computational requirements of Princeton's research community. The facility also will support a much smaller component of the University's administrative computing capacity.
- PICSciE Server Room - This server room dedicated to research computing equipment provides 1,400 SF of raised floor space and 450 MW of UPS power.
- University Computing Center - This facility that currently serves as the university's main data center houses both research computing and enterprise computing equipment. It provides 9,000 SF of raised floor space and 750 MW of UPS power. Most of this facility will be shut down when migration to the HPCRC is completed in the fall of 2011.
