The Tulane University High Performance Computing system, Cypress, is composed of Dell state-of-the-art technology, using Intel Ivy Bridge CPU, Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor, and Lustre file system running on Dell storage with Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL) technology. The components of Cypress were carefully selected to provide consistent performance over a wide range of scientific applications. Cypress will deliver a peak general capability of 668.75TF and will incorporate 7.936TB of fast main memory with 1 Petabyte (1PB) of high-performance storage. Cypress is designed to provide a powerful but flexible design, suited to the computing resource demands of computational scientists and researchers.

For a sample of research projects made possible by Cypress and our HPC team, follow this link to see Tulane HPC Highlights.

The design of Cypress is very similar to larger machines that are deployed or being deployed at the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), making it easy for our researchers to port their code to larger environments as their models grow larger and more complex.

Our team holds periodic educational HPC workshops to introduce our research community to our HPC resources, and we are also available for consultation regarding your research projects.