A major benefit available to tenants of  ITenterprises is the High Performance Computing (HPC) Center. This flexible, 3,000-square-foot facility houses a scalable computational compute cluster and provides server infrastructure for industry and academia clients and tenants of ITe.

By sharing expensive data center resources, clients gain equipment and personnel efficiencies. Clients also gain peace of mind knowing their important data is backed up to centralized storage and uptime is supported by redundant battery and generator power.

In an effort to keep energy consumption and cooling efficient, the HPC Center is an expandable space. Currently configured at 1,500 square feet, the electrical and cooling infrastructure in place allow for expansion up to 3,000 square feet. Likewise, the computational cluster is currently configured at 256 cores but can be expanded many fold as need arises. The HPC Center's backup solution (SAN and core network) also has expansion capabilities built in for future growth while keeping today's overhead costs to a minimum.

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HPC Center Services:

• High Performance Computational Cluster
  Many of today’s computing solutions are being delivered faster through the use of parallel computation clusters, a large group of commodity servers working together on one problem. ITe clients have access to a scalable 256 core AMD cluster which can deliver over 700 Gflops of computational power. Billing is done on a per cycle basis, so clients can share this expensive resource that they might not otherwise be able to afford or manage on their own.

• Hosted Servers ITe can also provide and manage hosted servers for client computing needs. Each server is equipped with redundant hardware to guard against down time and managed by experienced data center personnel for runtime issues and disaster recovery. Clients can request a variety of operating systems and server class software to fit their needs.

• Colocation Even if a client has existing server hardware, a data center can be very costly infrastructure. By using the existing ITe data center to host their servers, a client can share our existing infrastructure.  Experienced data center personnel can provide collocation clients the same level of monitoring and disaster recovery already provided for hosted servers and the computational cluster.

• Virtual Machines Using virtual machine technology is an excellent way for clients to share hardware but still maintain a dedicated server presence for lighter work load applications. By using virtual machines, several servers can run on one set of physical hardware. This is a very cost effective solution when the full power of a physical server is not required. Virtual machines are also a great tool for research and development as they allow a backup copy of the entire server to be created prior to a test phase. That allows for easy rollback to the previous state, reversing changes in minutes instead of hours or days.