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The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Simulation and Modeling has added a powerful new Intel Nehalem-based 800-core Linux cluster to an existing 116-node cluster and integrated the two using Penguin’s proprietary Scyld cluster management software. Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing (HPC) solutions, today announced that it has deployed a new turnkey HPC solution at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Simulation and Modeling. The new supercomputer significantly extends the compute power at the University of Pittsburgh while also providing more efficient and productive cluster management across the entire environment. The Center has also acquired a Penguin nVidia GPU system.

The Center for Simulation and Modeling provides a wide range of applications that include computer-aided design and characterization of new materials, computational approaches applied to energy and sustainability issues, and ion transport through biological ion channels. The Center for Simulation and Modeling is dedicated to supporting and facilitating computational-based research across the university, and serves as a catalyst for multidisciplinary collaborations among professors, sponsors modeling-focused seminars, teaches graduate-level modeling courses and provides individual consultation in modeling to all researchers at the university.

Penguin Computing, headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in complete, integrated Linux HPC clustering solutions, comprehensive cluster management software, and services.