HPC Cluster About

ELSA High Performance Computing Cluster

ELSA (Electronic Laboratory for Science and Analysis) is TCNJ's heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster named after the famous “Born Free” lioness and our mascot.

ELSA’s compute resources are currently comprised of over 56 nodes, providing 2,796 central processing unit (CPU) cores, 23.5TB of RAM, 78 graphics processing units (GPUs), and approximately 6.3 petabytes of network-based storage. The cluster is housed in this dedicated Scientific Computing Center in TCNJ’s newly constructed STEM Building.

Use Cases

Generally, the HPC cluster is used to run large simulations and process big data that is impractical to do on a desktop workstation or laptop computer. The HPC cluster provides large amounts of memory (RAM), CPU cores (processors), GPUs (specialized computational devices) and fast, permanent storage (disk).

Example areas of faculty and undergraduate research and teaching using the ELSA cluster include:

• Applied Mathematics
• Astrophysics
• Big Data
• Biochemistry
• Biophysics
• Biostatistics
• Catalytic Chemistry
• Encryption
• Evolution & Phylogeny
• Fluid Dynamics
• Genetics & Bioinformatics
• Machine Learning
• Mathematical Biology
• Natural Language Processing
• Synthetic Biology

Contact and Tour Information

To learn more about the ELSA cluster including how to gain access to this resource as well as scheduling class tours of the cluster, please contact Shawn Sivy in Physics 108A, ssivy@tcnj.edu, or 609-771-3475.

Acknowledgements

The computing hardware comprising the ELSA cluster was provided in part by the State of New Jersey’s Building our Future bond, NJ ELF Bond, and grants from the National Science Foundation (OAC-1826915 and OAC-2320244). The College of New Jersey and the School of Science gratefully acknowledge their support and partnership.