College - Author 1
College of Engineering
Department - Author 1
Computer Science Department
College - Author 2
College of Engineering
Department - Author 2
Computer Science Department
College - Author 3
College of Engineering
Department - Author 3
Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor
David Marshall, College of Engineering, Aerospace Department
Funding Source
Metrea and the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly
Acknowledgements
PSSC Labs
Date
10-2025
Abstract/Summary
With the exponential growth in the use of computing, there is a growing need for undergraduate students to enter the workforce with experience with more complicated computing architectures. The CFD research group in the Aerospace Engineering Department received an HPC system and related computing hardware through the Air Force Research Lab. This system consists of three components: (1) a cluster compute engine with 256 CPU cores, 3.2 TB of RAM, 4 Tesla A100 GPUs, and 200 Gbps InfiniBand network backplane; (2) a high performance storage platform with 540 TB of raw storage, 200 Gbps InfiniBand network, and BeeGFS parallel cluster filesystem, and (3) a long term file storage server. These three systems need to be stood-up, tested, and upgraded as needed to the latest versions of their operating systems. There also needs to be system administration plans developed along with a coordinated suite of automated system administration utilities to monitor and maintain these systems. Finally, there a number of research specific software applications that need to be installed on this system, including commercial computational fluid dynamics applications and custom libraries for future research activities.
October 1, 2025.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/ceng_surp/148