Projects

MSU Award Number

361451-193000-02100

Current NGI File Number

NA19OAR4590410

Associated MSU Award or NGI File Numbers

NA180OAR4590435 (36540-191001-021000), 17-NGI3-30 (363531-191001-021000)

Start Date

10/1/2017

End Date

2023-9-30 0:0:0

Project Status

Active

Award Amount

$32,587,728.00

Project Title

HPC Support for OAR (Includes Phase I, II, and III)

PI Last Name

Breckenridge

PI First Name

Trey

PI Affiliation

MSU

Research Theme

Data Mgmt DM

Funding Source

OAR

Project Description

NOAA depends on high performance computing (HPC) for its missions, one being to conduct environmental modeling that results in products and services upon which the public depends. The HPC system Orion at Mississippi State University is providing increased computational capability for NOAA research activities and supports 59 unique NOAA projects and their 524 users who consume approximately 50 million wallclock-hours of CPU time per month. The system is a Dell C6420 cluster containing 1,800 nodes with a total of 3,600 Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors (72,000 compute cores in aggregate) and 345 terabytes of RAM, a 10 petabyte high performance data storage system, and a Mellanox HDR InfiniBand interconnect. The system ranked as the 60th fastest system in the world in the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites November 2019 list and has a peak performance of 5.5 PetaFLOPS.