HPC systems don't work if they overheat, so our Technology Infrastructure and Operations Team kept things cool by adding an additional 30-ton cooling system to the EWFM Data Center. KEEPING SYSTEMS COOL The next phase of high-performance computing (HPC) at Lehigh took flight with the introduction of Hawk, a new research computing cluster established with a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Campus Cyberinfrastructure program. Research Computing and Digital Scholarship staff taught 23 Research Computing seminars on topics such as Research Computing Resources, Programming and Data Visualization in Python and R, Concepts in Machine Learning, and Text Mining, for 174 faculty, students, and staff. Held three workshops in collaboration with the Departments of Chemistry and Mathematics on using Quantum Chemistry packages and Programming in C, Fortran, OpenMP, OpenACC, and MPI. Workshops were attended by 59 faculty, students, and staff. Supported undergraduate research by providing computing time on Hawk to three summer undergraduate researchers in the Physics Department’s Research Experience for Undergraduates, 13 undergraduates in the Data for Impact program, and seven in the newly created STEM-SI program for graduate students. DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING HAVE UNLOCKED CERTAIN KINDS OF PROBLEMS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY UNADDRESSABLE. WHETHER IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, GENOMICS AND HEALTH, OR PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY, SIMULATIONS AND DATA-INTENSIVE RESEARCH ARE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO THE WORK TAKING PLACE AT LEHIGH. With the addition of the 34-node Hawk and 800TB Ceph storage, Lehigh’s total HPC compute capacity is now 123 nodes, 4260 CPUs with 30TB RAM, 152 GPUs with 1.6TB memory providing 37M core hours of computing per year and a total peak performance of 211.71 TFLOPs. Hawk is available to Lehigh researchers and nationally to the Open Science Grid community. RESEARCH COMPUTING 375 Active users 76 Project Investigators 53.77M 6.4M CPU hours Jobs HPC USAGE SINCE 2016 —NATHAN URBAN Provost Our 2021 High Performance Computing Symposium—attended by 63 faculty, students, and staff—celebrated the grant award and our deployment of the Hawk cluster by showcasing research conducted by three research groups and a panel discussion with Provost Nathan Urban, Vice Provost Greg Reihman, and Deans Robert Flowers (CAS) and Stephen DeWeerth (RCEAS) sharing Lehigh leadership’s vision of HPC at Lehigh. R E S E A R C H & S C H O L A R S H I P 14 | L I BRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERV I CES
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