The UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) is the
community-based, interdisciplinary core facility for scientific 
computing and research on parallel algorithms. Started in 2008 by more 
than 20 researchers from more than ten departments and research centers 
from all three colleges, it is supported by faculty contributions, 
federal grants, and the UMBC administration. The facility is open to 
UMBC researchers at no charge. Researchers can purchase nodes for 
long-term priority access. System administration is provided by the UMBC 
Division of Information Technology, and users have access to consulting 
support provided by a dedicated full-time GRA. Installed in Fall 2009, 
the current machine is the 86-node distributed-memory cluster tara with 
two quad-core Intel Nehalem processors and 24 GB per node, an InfiniBand 
interconnect, and 160 TB central storage. For more information about 
HPCF and its resources and projects, visit www.umbc.edu/hpcf or contact 
the chair of the user committee Dr. Matthias K. Gobbert, Department of 
Mathematics and Statistics, gobbert@umbc.edu, 410-455-2404.