University of Sussex Builds Multi-purpose HPC Cluster: Case Study
University research team builds a multi-purpose HPC cluster to analyze data from CERN’s ATLAS project.
Business need
The University of Sussex needed a powerful high performance computing (HPC) cluster to process data coming out of CERN’s ATLAS project and offer affordable compute facilities for all departments.
Solution
The university worked with Dell to design and deploy a HPC cluster with a parallel file system, delivering fast access to data and easy management for all departments.
The work conducted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is some of the most important scientific research undertaken today. With a remit to find evidence of new physics – behavior beyond what is currently understood in the standard model of physics – CERN is searching for dark matter and supersymmetry between sub-atomic particles.
To do this, the ATLAS project measures the results of proton interactions after high-speed collisions. Each time the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) fires protons at each other, a huge quantity of data is collected. This data needs to be analyzed and interpreted by teams at universities around the world, including the University of Sussex. Dr Fabrizio Salvatore, from the Experimental Particle Physics team at the University of Sussex, explains: “We’re a tier-three research facility looking at data produced by CERN – this means we do some of the most in-depth analysis and need huge computational power to complete our work. By analyzing this data, we hope to learn about the basic forces that have shaped our universe since the beginning of time – and will determine its fate.”
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University of Sussex Builds Multi-purpose HPC Cluster: Case Study
University research team builds a multi-purpose HPC cluster to analyze data from CERN’s ATLAS project.
Business need
The University of Sussex needed a powerful high performance computing (HPC) cluster to process data coming out of CERN’s ATLAS project and offer affordable compute facilities for all departments.
Solution
The university worked with Dell to design and deploy a HPC cluster with a parallel file system, delivering fast access to data and easy management for all departments.
The work conducted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is some of the most important scientific research undertaken today. With a remit to find evidence of new physics – behavior beyond what is currently understood in the standard model of physics – CERN is searching for dark matter and supersymmetry between sub-atomic particles.
To do this, the ATLAS project measures the results of proton interactions after high-speed collisions. Each time the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) fires protons at each other, a huge quantity of data is collected. This data needs to be analyzed and interpreted by teams at universities around the world, including the University of Sussex. Dr Fabrizio Salvatore, from the Experimental Particle Physics team at the University of Sussex, explains: “We’re a tier-three research facility looking at data produced by CERN – this means we do some of the most in-depth analysis and need huge computational power to complete our work. By analyzing this data, we hope to learn about the basic forces that have shaped our universe since the beginning of time – and will determine its fate.”
Read the full University of Sussex Builds Multi-purpose HPC Cluster case study.
