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University Research Computing Facility

The University Research Computing Facility (URCF), established in 2013, provides high-performance scientific computing and secure data storage to the Drexel research community and other universities in the Philadelphia area.

University Research Computing Facility

The URCF provides high-performance scientific computing and secure data storage to the Drexel community and other universities in the Philadelphia area. The URCF’s data center houses the Picotte cluster, which comprises over 4,000 CPU cores, 20TB of RAM, 500TB of data storage, and dozens of Nvidia GPUs with over a terabyte of total GPU memory. Picotte was acquired through a combined $1.2 million investment funded by Drexel and an award from the NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation program. Picotte is available to all Drexel researchers free of charge, with increased usage limits and higher-priority jobs available for a cost.
 
Picotte is named in honor of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American to earn a medical degree and a Drexel alum.

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Drexel’s Picotte HPC cluster combines >3500 CPU cores, 576 GPU accelerated cores, large memory nodes and data storage into a shared research computing resource.
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, a Drexel alum, was the first Native American to earn a medical doctorate.