INDIANA UNIVERSITY DATA CENTER

HEAPY designed multiple system upgrades to the infrastructure within Indiana University’s Data Center, including multiple capacity expansions over the years for various enterprise and research (HPC, High Performance Computing) compute needs.

This work began with modifications to support the relocation of their research supercomputer, Big Red, from a separate existing building. The original Big Red was one of the most powerful university-owned computers in the U.S., and one of the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world. Part of a comprehensive strategy to build an advanced cyber infrastructure to support research at Indiana University, Big Red has a theoretical peak performance of more than 30 teraFLOPS, and has achieved more than 21 teraFLOPS on numerical computations.

In 2013, HEAPY completed a project to replace this supercomputer with the new, 25 times faster Cray Big Red II — the first announced system capable of 1 petaFLOP that was owned and operated for the benefit of a single university. If you performed one calculation per second with a hand calculator, it would take you 31.7 million years to do what Big Red 200 can do in a second!

In 2020, HEAPY completed a project that has seen the University’s research supercomputer taken to the next level with Big Red 3 and Big Red 200. Big Red 3 is dedicated to researchers, scholars, and artists with large-scale, compute-intensive applications that can take advantage of the system’s extreme processing capability and high-bandwidth network topology. It contains 22,464 compute cores and is capable of 934 teraFLOPS. Big Red 200 is a supercomputer designed to support scientific and medical research, and advanced research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics. Big Red 200 will have a theoretical peak performance greater than 6 petaFLOPS.

HEAPY SERVICES

Mechanical-Electrical Design Services

SIZE

600,000 SF

COST

$172,000,000