As part of my duties at Wentworth Institute of Technology, I designed, built, and manage Wentworth’s first supercomputer. The system is primarily used to facutly research and student teaching. It is a heterogenious system that contains CPUs and GPUs. This allows students and faculty to use both traditional distributed computing techniques and GPU programming with CUDA. Every year, I teach approximately 100 junior and senior students how to use the supercomputer, program HPC applications in C using MPI and OpenMP, and introduce GPU computing with CUDA.
The specifications of Wentworth’s supercomputer are: