Falcon Metadata
Falcon: High Performance Supercomputer
DOI: 10.7923/falcon.id
Falcon Metadata
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| Description | Falcon is an SGI ICE X supercomputer currently operated and used by a consortium of Idaho research universities (University of Idaho, Boise State University, Idaho State University). Falcon is owned by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and ranked 97th on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers when it was operationalized in 2014 and significantly upgraded in 2017. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (January 2022), management and use of Falcon was transferred to the Idaho research computing consortium. Falcon is located in the INL Collaborative Computing Center (C3) facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA. It currently consists of approximately 932 nodes with dual Intel Xeon E5-2695v4 18-core processors running at 2.1 GHz (36 cores per node) for a total of 33,552 cores capable of more than 1 PetaFLOPS of compute capacity. Each node on Falcon is configured with 128 GB of RAM for a total of about 120TB of overall system memory, uses an Infiniband-based interconnect configured as a 7-dimensional hypercube, and uses a 1.3 petabyte fault-tolerant Lustre filesystem. Falcon represents an order-of-magnitude increase in high performance computing under direct management and use by Idaho university researchers. Faculty, staff, and students from the three Idaho universities access Falcon free of charge. Falcon is connected to the universities via the Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) which enables high speed data transfers to both local and remote compute centers. |
| Recommended Citation | Idaho C3+3 Collaboration. (2022). Falcon: High Performance Supercomputer. University of Idaho. https://doi.org/10.7923/falcon.id |
| Contact Information | Contact Name: Benjamin Oswald Contact Email: boswald@uidaho.edu |
| Creator(s) | Full Name: Idaho C3+3 Collaboration Unique identifier: NULL Affiliation: Idaho National Laboratory Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/00ty2a548 Affiliation: Idaho State Board of Education Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/05n116e91 |
| Other Contributor(s) | Full Name: Collaborative Computer Center Role: Hosting Institution Affiliation: Idaho National Laboratory Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/00ty2a548 Full Name: Benjamin Oswald Role: Project Leader Affiliation: University of Idaho Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/03hbp5t65 Full Name: University of Idaho Role: Other (Collaborating University) Unique identifier: https://ror.org/03hbp5t65 Full Name: Boise State University Role: Other (Collaborating University) Unique identifier: https://ror.org/02e3zdp86 Full Name: Idaho State University Role: Other (Collaborating University) Unique identifier: https://ror.org/0162z8b04 Full Name: Joseph Leister Role: Related Person (HPC Systems Administrator) Affiliation: University of Idaho Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/03hbp5t65 Full Name: Michael Ennis Role: Related Person (HPC Systems Administrator) Affiliation: Idaho State University Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/0162z8b04 Full Name: Frank T. Willmore Role: Related Person (HPC Systems Administrator) Affiliation: Boise State University Affiliation identifier: https://ror.org/02e3zdp86 |
| DOI Publisher | University of Idaho |
| Publication Year | 2022 |
| Subject(s) | 2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 2.2 Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering, Computer hardware and architecture; |
| Keywords/Tags | supercomputer, falcon, high performance computing, cluster, c3, Idaho, research, universities |
| Resource Type Control | Other – Supercomputer |
| Date Available for Public | 2022 |
| Spatial/Geographical Coverage Location | Study Area Description: Idaho National Laboratory: Cybercore & Collaborative Computer Center (C3) Data Centers Point Locations(s): 43.521264, -112.052534 |
| Related Content | Information about Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) is available at https://ironforidaho.net/ |