The National Science Foundation awarded the Department of Computer Science a grant to build the infrastructure to support experimental systems research. The award was given to a team consisting of Profs. Gabriel, Chapman and Subhlok with a budget of $448,000. This equipment grant will enable UH to purchase a heterogeneous compute cluster with core aspects of emerging high-end  systems. The system will have a high degree of parallelism by maximizing the cores per node, and by deploying compute accelerators. Furthermore, it will include a storage system that will be based on solid-state disks (SSDs). The hardware will be open for use by other researchers at the University of Houston.

For more information:

• Parallel Software Technologies Lab led by Assistant Professor Edgar Gabriel
• HPC Tools Group led by Professor Barbara Chapman
• High Performance Systems Lab led by Professor Jaspal Subhlok