Research Computing

The High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) is Princeton’s new data center completed in December of 2011. The  47,000-square-foot with 5 MW facility 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. 

• Building design is intended to meet LEED Silver standards
• Building is designed to be 33% more efficient than the computing center at 87 Prospect
• Energy efficient HVAC system including heat-recovery system

Renderings and construction photos are located in the photo gallery. Please note that renderings and artists' conceptions are presented here for historical purposes only.  The final designs of these projects may have evolved since these renderings were created.

Architect	Gensler
Engineering	AKF Group, Boston
Project Management	CS Technology

Princeton Representation

This project is managed by the Office of Real Estate Development.