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Cluster Specs
Upgraded Hardware
Vermont Advanced Computing Core

The third major upgrade to the high performance computing (HPC) cluster is complete. More than doubling the total number of computing cores available to faculty and student users, the upgrade also showcases a continued investment at UVM in "green computing," with next generation IBM hardware chosen for the upgrade bringing up to 30% more energy efficiency than equivalent HPC systems.

VACC Collaborator
Josh Bongard
Associate Professor, Computer Science

The calculations underpinning the full evolutionary transformation of Bongard's "robust" robot required 5000 experiments that took eight hours each on our super computer. On an ordinary PC, it would have required 100 years. The project as a whole took 3 months on the VACC.

VACC Collaborator
Christopher Danforth
Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics

Weather and climate model forecast errors grow with time as a result of chaotic instabilities that amplify uncertainty. Danforth's team is using the VACC cluster to analyze the statistics of millions of past forecasts in order to reduce this growth and improve predictions of the Earth's atmosphere.

VACC Collaborator
Yves Dubief
Associate Professor, School of Engineering

We use massively parallel computing to access physical phenomena that cannot be captured by current experimental techniques. The VACC is our test bed for the development of multiscale, predictive algorithms with outcomes ranging from the study of new approaches to knee lubrication and its relation to osteoarthritis, to insights into the complexity of space reentry ablation mechanisms.

VACC Collaborator
Kameron Decker Harris
UVM Graduate, Mathematics

The VACC is the perfect testbed for "synthetic experiments" where models are tested against simulated versions of reality. These experiments will hopefully shed light on new ways of combating disease and radicalism, viral marketing, and understanding aggregate human behavior.