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The Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies has doubled the size of its accelerator cluster from 16 to 32 nodes.  Each of the 32 compute nodes is matched with one NVIDIA Tesla S1070 containing four GT200 GPUs, each with 4 GB of memory.  The cluster also includes 11 Nallatech H101 PCIX FPGA accelerators.

NVIDIA donated the Tesla units to University of Illinois professor Wen-Mei Hwu, an IACAT researcher, the Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and head of the CUDA Center of Excellence at Illinois.

The cluster also has been upgraded with a 2GB/sec InfiniBand connection.

The cluster is used for Electrical and Computer Engineering courses, for training workshops, as a platform to explore the potential for GPUs to accelerate applications to the petascale and beyond, and as a resource for science and engineering researchers.

Staff at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) assist with deployment and support for the accelerator cluster. NCSA explores innovative architectures and techniques to accelerate scientific computing through its Innovative Systems Laboratory.

For more information on the IACAT cluster, see http://iacat.uiuc.edu/resources/cluster/.