About us...

Our Computational Science and Engineering Support Group (CSES) supports the University's research and academic activities by providing services for High Performance Computing, programming, and third-party software.

In particular, CSES maintains the TIGRESS High Performance Computing Center at Princeton University. TIGRESS is a collaborative facility that brings together funding, support, and participation from the Princeton Institute for Computiational Science and Engineerging (PICSciE ), the Office of Information Technology (OIT ), the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics (Genomics ) , the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL ), and a number of academic departments and faculty members. The facility is designed to create a well balanced set of High Performance Computing (HPC) resources meeting the broad computational requirements of the Princeton University research community.

Its current resources include:

• Orangena, a 2048 processor IBM Blue Gene/L
• Woodhen, a 768 processor Dell beowulf cluster
• Della, a 512 processor Dell beowulf cluster
• Hecate, a 128 processor SGI Altix
• Adroit, a 64 processor Dell beowulf cluster
• /tigress a 35 TB GPFS filesystem.

For more information about TIGRESS, and how to register as a user, please browse to the TIGRESS website.

CSES also provides computational software for use by the research and academic community, as well as installation and problem solving support for academic departments with their own high performance computing facilities. Finally, CSES provides programming assistance and training for those developing in-house research and academic applications.

Hardware Resources

• TIGRESS High Performance Computing Center
• Princeton OIT Condor Pool

Software Resources

• Subversion Service Request
• Princeton Software Repository (PSR)
• Software site licenses and volume purchase agreements

Assistance and Training

• HPC installation and problem solving
• Programming assistance
• Programming training

To request services from CSES, click on the "Request Work" link on the right-hand navigation bar, or contact Curt Hillegas by calling 258-6033 or sending e-mail to curt@princeton.edu.