{"629130":{"#nid":"629130","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hive Supercomputer Makes its Debut as Georgia Tech\u2019s Largest High-Performance Computing Resource in New State-of-the-Art Datacenter","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech now boasts a $5.3 million high-performance computing (HPC) system that is enabling data-driven discovery in data science, computational astrophysics, biology, chemistry, and materials science at the institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKnown as Hive, this newly operational supercomputer supports research for over 33 faculty, 54 research scientists and postdocs, 195 graduate students, and 56 undergraduate students from the colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHive was acquired by the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) through a $3.7 million \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1828187\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research and Instrumentation Program grant \u003C\/a\u003Eand a $1.6 million contribution by Georgia Tech in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/611216\/georgia-tech-award-equips-codas-data-center-new-supercomputer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[Related News: Georgia Tech Award Equips Coda\u0026rsquo;s Data Center with New Supercomputer]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIDEaS Director and School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Professor and Interim Chair Srinivas Aluru is the primary investigator on the grant. According to Aluru, \u0026ldquo;Hive allows us to solve\u0026nbsp;large scale of data-intensive problems and will be an asset to Georgia Tech for the next five years or so.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe supercomputer has over 100 trillion bytes of memory, 11,500 compute cores, and 2.5 quadrillion bytes of storage. To put it simply, this cluster, which delivers 0.7 petaflops of performance based on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.top500.org\/project\/linpack\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELINPACK Benchmark\u003C\/a\u003E, is fast.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[VIDEO::https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZHV8fxzhlDw::aVideoStyle]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocal and National Collaborations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHive represents several interdisciplinary, cross-institute collaborative efforts. One of these is the attachment of this supercomputer to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.xsede.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EExtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment\u003C\/a\u003E (XSEDE) program, which funds and interconnects supercomputers nationwide, enabling national collaborative use of this resource.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have reserved about 20 percent capacity of the machine to support research activities of regional partners, minority-serving institutions, and others through the XSEDE Program,\u0026rdquo; Aluru said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One particular segment that we are focusing on is supporting historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority institutions in or around Atlanta. We are also providing active training programs to bring faculty and students from these institutions on board to use high-performance computing,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University all have research on the machine with the support of this program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s HPC Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHive made its official debut with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 21 at the Coda datacenter. Georgia Tech Executive Vice President of Research Chouki Abdallah delivered opening remarks before attendees were invited for a private tour of the new facility and an up-close view of the Hive computer \u0026ndash; which featured newly-added blue LED lights across its many stacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The institute is trying to come up with a long-term plan for high-performance computing, and this is a manifestation of our performance so far,\u0026rdquo; said Abdallah during the ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of this plan includes moving all of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s computing services and the Office of Information Technology to the new data center by the end of the school year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESix Years in the Making\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHive\u0026rsquo;s existence represents roughly six years of planning and preparation across Georgia Tech units and several external organizations. This includes the construction of an entirely new 80,000 sq. ft. data center in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/codatechsquare.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECoda building\u003C\/a\u003E which is managed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.databank.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDataBank\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIntegral to this datacenter planning and readying for the Hive supercomputer was Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pace.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPartnership for an Advanced Computing Environment \u003C\/a\u003E(PACE) team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to PACE Senior HPC Architect Paul Manno, \u0026ldquo;We have partnered with DataBank and we are working with them to create what is essentially a great research resource, but also a great operations datacenter, for Georgia Tech and others. Before, we were limited by space, power, and cooling in the old datacenter on campus.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe said, \u0026ldquo;Now, in addition to having much more space, we are starting out with roughly two megawatts of power for Georgia Tech and we can expand that up to 8-10 megawatts, which gives us the ability to expand well beyond what people had originally envisioned and provides Georgia Tech a means to grow into the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hive is the new $5.3 million high-performance computing system housed in Coda. 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