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HPC User Forum 16 th October 2008

Discover Imperial College London's world-class scholarship, education, and research in science, technology, and medicine. Explore interdisciplinary collaborations and the sharing of knowledge. Join our vibrant academic community and benefit from state-of-the-art facilities.

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HPC User Forum 16 th October 2008

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  1. HPC User Forum16th October 2008 Professor Chris Hankin

  2. Imperial at a glance • The University’s objectives: • world class scholarship, education and research in science, technology and medicine • interdisciplinary collaborations • communicate and share knowledge • Established in 1907 • Academic faculties: • Engineering • Natural Sciences • Medicine • plus Imperial College Business School

  3. Our Estate • Six London campuses • Charing Cross • Chelsea and Westminster • Hammersmith • Royal Brompton • South Kensington • St Mary’s • Two campuses in • South East England • Silwood Park, Ascot • Wye, Kent South Kensington Campus and surrounding area

  4. Our staff • 8,200 staff and visiting staff • 3,000 academic and research staff • 3,000 support staff • 1,700 honorary staff • 700 academic visitors and visiting researchers

  5. Our students • 13,000 students • 8,300 undergraduates • 2,200 taught postgraduates • 2,500 research postgraduates • Courses • 111 undergraduate courses • 124 postgraduate taught courses • 7:1 Ratio applications to admissions • AAB Average A-level entry grade

  6. Our financial strengths • £556m Turnover • 6.6% Total percentage received by Imperial in national public funding of university research • Largest industrial sponsorship in UK university sector • £230m Total research income 2006-07

  7. Our research themes

  8. Current HPC Provision • SGI Altix: 32 Itanium 2 CPUs with 256 GBytes • DELL PC Cluster: 510 nodes (1860 cores), 2-16 GBytes per node, 280 nodes connected via Infiniband interconnect • 60 TBytes of RAID disk storage • College commitment to annual upgrade/replacement • Supporting dedicated sub-clusters for Research Groups (1300 cores)

  9. Faculty involvement • Users across all faculties • Engineering: Turbulence, Earth modelling, Materials Modelling • Natural Sciences: Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, data Mining, High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, Plasma Physics • Medicine: Epidemiology, Population Genomics

  10. Thank You

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