About
Overview
The High Performance Computing facility in Durham Center provides access to petascale systems that support large-scale computing needs for scientific and instructional endeavors at Iowa State University. View a list of systems and equipment.
Management, Support, & Facilities
The Chief Information Officer will be responsible for the general management of the HPC operation. This includes staff to assist with creating applications, staff access on a case-by-case basis, hosting of all nodes not maintained by a College or Center, coordinating of all utilities, financial administration, etc. The goal is for all to participate so that synergies can be uncovered and resources allocated in the most beneficial way.
| Name | Role | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Kristen Constant | Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) | Office of the CIO |
| Marina Kraeva | Manager of High Performance Computing | Information Technology Services |
Strategy & Planning
HPC Steering Committee
- Advises the Vice President for Research on use of institutional matching funds for HPC,
- Advises the CIO on HPC needs for university data center space,
- Identifies proposals that require planning for facilities,
- Connects researchers with similar computing needs,
- Build HPC Community,
- Encourages collaborative HPC efforts and proposals,
- Sets the direction for campus HPC, and
- Coordinates ISU efforts in the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation.
| Name | Committee Role | Title | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baskar Ganapathysubramanian | Chair | Professor | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Kristen Constant | Co-Sponsor with VPR | Vice President and Chief Information Officer | Office of the CIO |
| James Reecy | Representative | Associate Vice President for Research |
Office of VPR |
| Arne Hallam | Representative | Associate Dean for Research | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Carolyn Lawrence-Dill | Representative | Associate Dean for Research and Discovery | College of Agriculture & Life Sciences |
| Hridesh Rajan | Representative | Professor and Chair | Computer Science |
| Arun Somani | Representative | Associate Dean for Research | College of Engineering |
| Monica Lamm | Representative | Associate Professor | Chemical & Biological Engineering |
| Iddo Friedberg | Representative | Associate Professor | Vet Microbiology & Preventive Medicine |
| Zhengyuan Zhu | Representative | Professor | Statistics |
| James Koltes | Representative | Assistant Professor | College of Agriculture & Life Sciences |
| Caroline Westort | Representative | Associate Professor | Landscape Architecture |
| Marina Kraeva | Ex-Officio | Manager of High Performance Computing | Information Technology Services: Academic Technologies |
HPC Community (HPC Comm)
HPC Comm is an Iowa State University community that promotes dialog focused on high performance computing in research and education. HPC Comm is a university-wide community where ideas and resources can be shared and debate can occur on future technology directions at ISU. HPC Comm is open to all interested ISU faculty and staff.
HPC Comm established a listserve to maintain dialog about, share news, and to publicize events related to high performance computing at Iowa State. Any interested faculty, staff and graduate students are welcome to participate.
If you would like to join HPC Comm, email hpc-help@iastate.edu stating your interest in joining the list.
Systems & Equipment
Check out the complete list of HPC Systems & Equipment.