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High Performance Computing (HPC) at Florida Institute of Technology
HPC Cluster is a set of computers working in parallel performing similar to a supercomputer for a fraction of the price. The HPC
Cluster is made up of a cluster of nodes connected by a high-speed network that perform intense computing tasks. The cluster is
connected to the external world through a single head node.
The Blueshark HPC cluster at Florida Institute of Technology is a 576 processor core IBM system, comprised of 48 compute nodes and 1 head node. For
more information about the HPC, see Wikipedia. The Blueshark HPC Cluster was funded by the National Science Foundation
major Research Implementation grant. To request access to the cluster, enter a call ticket at http://itservices.fit.edu/support/request.
The olin.fit.edu server allows people to run research and academic tasks in a non-clustered environment.
Departmental HPC Clusters are being used to facilitate specific needs of the department. Availability of the department clusters varies between each department.
