Overview

The JPL Supercomputing and Visualization Facility was formed in May 2000 as a successor to the JPL Supercomputing Project which had been in existence since 1989. Its mission is to provide all JPL engineers and scientists with the best possible state-of-the-art high-performance computing and visualization environment to help them solve their computationally-intensive problems.

Organization

The SVF is funded and operated by the JPL Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). Organizationally, the facility is part of the Enterprise Computing and Networking Section (Section 173). More information about these organizations can be found here:

         Office of the Chief Information Officer

         Enterprise Computing and Networking Section

Hardware

The SVF currently operates two types of supercomputers - Dell Xeon cluster with Myrinet interconnects, an SGI Itanium2 Altix 3000 system. Besides the supercomputers, the Facility provides online and backup mass storage for users to store their programs and data sets. In addition, the Facility also provides visualization resources to enable the users to visualize their data at animation speeds.

More information about the SVF's hardware can be found here:

SVF Hardware

Software

The SVF provides a rich set of software development tools to help the user develop accurate, efficient and robust codes on the supercomputers. These include compilers, debuggers, profilers, and tuned math and scientific libraries. In addition, the SVF also provides a number of third-party applications.

More information about the SVF's software can be found here:

SVF Software

Staff

In addition to providing hardware and software, the facility also provides consulting services at no charge to help its users obtain the maximum benefit from the available resources. Consulting is available for:

- Mathematical algorithm development

- Computational mathematics software

- Porting and parallelizing codes

- Vector processing

- Code and system benchmarking

- Code optimization

- Code debugging

- Efficient I/O

- MPI/OpenMP

- SHMEM

- Fortran F77 and F90 programming

- C programming

- LINUX/UNIX/IRIX/UNICOS

- Visualization hardware

- Visualization software

- NCAR graphics

- Documentation

More information about the SVF's staff can be found here:

SVF Staff

Contact Us

Drop in:

Offices: 602-110

Our office hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday (except for the regular days off).

Call us:

Hotline: +1 818 393-2729 (3-CRAY)

E-mail:

Supercomputing Consultants

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