Through its relationship with Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX) of Carnegie Mellon University and the larger higher education research community, Drexel research faculty may avail themselves of services offered off-campus. Because of the robust, high-speed, low-latency links to Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) based services are particularly attractive.

Storage at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The PSC-developed Data Supercell is a low cost, high bandwidth, low latency, highly reliable, and high capacity disk-based data management solution. It provides academic, corporate, government, and research partners with a convenient and affordable way to store and access their data, including extremely large data sets.

The minimum storage requirement is 10TB. The first copy of data is $250/TB/year; a second copy, if required, is an additional $175/TB/year.

Computing at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

PSC's flagship HPC system, Blacklight, is the world's largest shared-memory system. Its extremely large memory, 16 terabytes, coupled with its familiar Linux operating system and versatile programming models makes it as easy to use as a PC. Complementing Blacklight are HPC clusters that are ideal for running smaller, loosely coupled analyses.

For additional information on the services from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, contact Cheryl Begandy (412-268-5129, begandy@psc.edu).

Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is a single virtual system, connected via Internet2, that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. People around the world use these resources and services — things like supercomputers, collections of data and new tools — to improve our planet.