Stony Brook Installs New Supercomputer

Members of the Ookami Computer Cluster Team at Stony Brook. Standing, from left: John Dey, Sr. Linux Systems Administrator; David Cyrille, Assistant VP & Chief Research Information Officer; Daniel G Wood, Sr. HPC Engineer; Firat Coskun, HPC Architect; Andrew Burford, Student Assistant; David Carlson, Sr. Student Assistant. Seated, from left: Barbara Chapman, Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Science (Co-PI Ookami grant); Robert Harrison, Director, IACS and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Alan Calder, Deputy Director of IACS, and Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy. (SBU News)

The Institute for Advanced Computational Science proudly installed the long-awaited fastest, and most power-efficient supercomputer in the world. This machine, named Ookami (‘wolf’ in Japanese) is run by IACS in partnership with the Center for Computational Research at the University of Buffalo.

“This system has a nearly magical combination of programmability, performance and efficiency, with the potential to transform computational research in many areas of science, engineering and industry,” said Robert Harrison, professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and director of the IACS. To read more about Ookami, see the SBU News article here!