Research Computing at West Virginia University¶
West Virginia University Research Computing (WVU-RC) is a team inside WVU’s Research Office dedicated to supporting, enabling, and advancing computational research at WVU.
WVU Research Computing maintains a portfolio of infrastructure to support its mission. We maintain several High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters, from general-purpose to specialized ones, both on-premises and in the cloud. WVU Research Computing also provides other services such as a large research data storage facility called DataDepot, and a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for high-speed data transfers called WVU Research Exchange (REX).
In addition to maintaining these facilities, WVU Research Computing offers support, consulting, and training in areas of High-Performance Computing, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Parallel Programming.
The table below shows our portfolio of HPC resources (past and present):
Infraestructure/
HPC Clusters
|
Compute
Nodes
(total/active)
|
CPU
Cores
(total/active)
|
Accelerators
GPUs
(total/active)
|
Description
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Mountaineer
(decommissioned in
2018)
|
32/0 |
384/0 |
0/0 |
First centrally managed HPC Cluster for WVU.
CPUs from Intel Westmere microarchitecture (32 nm).
|
Spruce Knob
(decommissioned on
2023)
|
176/148 |
3376/3036 |
14/5 NVIDIA GPUs
Tesla K20m
Tesla K20Xm
|
General-purpose HPC cluster first commissioned in 2017.
Heterogeneous cluster with Intel processors.
Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Broadwell.
|
Thorny Flat
(in production)
|
178/178 |
6516/6516 |
47 NVIDIA GPUs
P6000 (21)
RTX 6000 (24)
A100 (2)
|
General-purpose HPC cluster.
Intel processors with Skylake and Cascade Lake.
Installed at Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center.
|
Dolly Sods
(in production)
|
37 |
1248 |
155 NVIDIA GPUs
A30 (120)
A40 (19)
A100 (16)
|
GPU Accelerated HPC Cluster.
To be provisioned in August 2023.
|
Harpers Ferry
(expected for 2025)
|
TBD |
TBD |
General Purpose HPC Cluster.
To be provisioned in 2025.
|
|
WVCTSI Cluster
Secure Cluster
(in production)
|
8/8 |
320/320 |
4 NVIDIA GPUs
Tesla V100S
|
HPC Cluster for use with
Protected Health Information (PHI)
HIPAA compliant
|
GoFirst
(in production)
|
Virtual Infraestructure running on AWS.
Serves Business Data Analytics (BUDA) program.
Chambers College of Business and Economics.
|
The contents of this website can be downloaded as a single PDF here: docs_hpc_wvu.pdf
There are several websites associated with WVU-RC activities, here is a list of the most relevant ones:
- The official webpage in the Research Office portal about the Research Computing Division
- The legacy documentation was a Wiki website that will continue to be online for a while
- The HelpDesk ticket system
If your research was possible thanks to the use of our clusters, please acknowledge the support using these comments:
For Thorny Flat:
“Computational resources were provided by the WVU Research Computing Thorny Flat HPC cluster, partly funded by NSF OAC-1726534.”
For Dolly Sods:
“Computational resources were provided by the WVU Research Computing Dolly Sods HPC cluster, which is funded in part by NSF OAC-2117575.”
To request help, create a new ticket on the Research Computing HPC HelpDesk web page. You are welcome to e-mail any member of the WVU-RC team directly, but since we are not always at our desk, the ticket system will guarantee that your support question will be seen by someone currently available.
- Main Responsible for Documentation and Scientific Outreach
- Introduction
- Quick Start
- Basic Usage
- Advanced Usage
- Scientific Programming
- Software Administration
- Editing these documents
- Installing Packages in User Locations
- Linear Algebra
- Boost 1.79
- Message Passing Interface
- HDF5 and NetCDF
- Fast Fourier Transforms
- Force Field Molecular Dynamics
- CHARM++ and NAMD
- Density Functional Theory
- Big Data
- Python 3.9.7
- Matlab N-D multithreaded matrix operations (MMX)
- Building Julia
- Tinker9
- Updating NVIDIA Driver and CUDA Toolkit
- Domain Specific Details
- Clusters Specifications
- References